The Sharon Building stands on New Montgomery facing the Palace Hotel across the street. Both buildings were designed by the prominent San Francisco architect, George Kelham.

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 office 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.

Other notable San Francisco buildings designed by Mr. Kelham are:

• Old Main Library (1916)
• Old Federal Reserve (1924)
• Standard Oil Building (1922)
• Russ Building (1927)
• Shell Building (1929)