Matson Building

The Matson Building at two hundred fifteen Market Street is defined by its cream-colored terra cotta facade, which rises in the form of a classical column. Completed in nineteen twenty-four, this sixteen-story Renaissance Revival structure was designed by architects Walter Bliss and William Faville to serve as the headquarters for the Matson Navigation Company. Its ornamentation includes custom nautical motifs, such as sea monsters and tridents, embedded into a polychrome frieze near the top.