The Savings Union Bank building was designed by the partnership of Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville, both graduates of MIT, who began their San Francisco practice in 1898.

Between 1898 and 1925, Bliss and Fraville were responsible for many of San Francisco's most striking buildings.

• Bank of Italy, 1 Powell Street
• Bank of California, 400 California Street
• California State Building
• Geary Theater, 415 Geary Street
• Masonic Tample, 25 Van Ness Avenue
• Matson Building, 235 Market Street
• Metropolitan Club, 640 Sutter Street
• Savings Union Bank, 1 Grant Avenue
• Southern Pacific Headquarters, 1 Market Street
• St. Francis Hotel
• University Club, 800 Powell Street

• Southern Pacific Depot, 5th and I Streets, Sacramento
• United States Post Office, 315 West Sycamore Street, Willows