The Hotaling Building is in the Jackson Square Historic District.

Anson Parson Hotaling built this structure as a headquarters for his several business interests which included liquor, real estate and trade. The Italianate façade is cast iron with cast iron shutters typical of contemporary advances in fire resistant construction.

The East Annex was originally a stable for a hotel, but Mr Hotaling purchased both the East and West Annexes to warehouse his whiskey. He and the whiskey business still prospered in 1906, and his buildings survived the Earthquake and Fire. Clergymen scolded from the few remaining pulpits that the disaster was God's divine retribution for the wickedness of San Franciscans (same old same old). Charles Field responded:

If, as they say, God spanked the town
For being over-frisky,
Why did He burn His churches down¹
And spare Hotaling's whiskey?

¹ e.g. St. Patrick's and Old St. Mary's