Landmark 163
Sharon Building
39-63 New Montgomery Street at Stevenson
Built 1912
The Sharon Building stands on New Montgomery Street facing the Palace Hotel.
Mr. Kelham was born in Manchester, Massachusetts in 1871 and educated at Harvard and L'Ecole des Beaux Arts. His company, Trowbridge & Livingston,
transferred him from New York to San Francisco to supervise the rebuilding of The Palace Hotel after the Earthquake and Fire. He remained in the Bay Area
until his death in 1936 and was the chief architect for the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition
and the University Architect at Berkeley from 1927 to 1936.
The Sharon Building is a Chicago style commercial building once filled with the offices of architects. Part of the frontage on New Montgomery
serves a facade for a parking garage and is only twenty feet deep. The ground floor is occupied by the House of Shields, a venerable bar and restaurant
which contains an ornate bar built for the Palace Hotel but later moved across the street.
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