Southern Pacific Building

The Southern Pacific Building is an eleven-story office structure at One Market Street, easily recognized by its distinctive E-shaped floor plan and its cream-colored terra cotta facade. Completed in nineteen seventeen, the building was designed by architects Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville in the Italian Renaissance style. At the time of its opening, it served as the corporate headquarters for the Southern Pacific Railroad, with the company occupying floors three through ten while reserving the ground level for retail space.