Bank of Eureka Building in Eureka, California
Built 1911 - Photographed 7 July 2007
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Albert Pissis, who was the first San Francisco architect to study at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, is credited with
introducing the Beaux Arts style to San Francisco.
Pissis was born in Guaymas, Mexico, to a French father and Mexican mother. The family moved to San Francisco when Pissis was six.
In 1882, after his studies in Paris, Pissis and his partner, William P. Moore, designed a number of buildings in the popular
Queen Anne and Eastlake styles (see San Francisco Landmark 168, Vale House, for an example. With
his 1892 design for the Hibernia Bank, Pissis joined the Classical Revival movement.
He was important in the rebuilding of San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.
Buildings Designed by Albert Pissis Sequenced By Year and Name
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|Vale House||1885||2226 California||San Francisco||San Francisco Landmark 168|
|Hibernia Bank||1892||1 Jones||San Francisco||San Francisco Landmark 130|
|Emporium||1896||835-865 Market||San Francisco||Also reconstruction after 1906 Earthquake and Fire and electric light standards on Market Street in front of the Emporium|
|Flood Building||1904||870-898 Market||San Francisco||San Francisco Landmark 154|
|Temple Sherith Israel||1904||2266 California||San Francisco||National Register #10000114|
|Roullier Building||1907||49 Kearny||San Francisco|
|Anglo and London Paris National Bank||1908||Market and Sutter||San Francisco|
|Borel Building||1908||440 Montgomery||San Francisco||San Francisco Landmark 109|
|Charleston Building||1908||251-255 Kearny||San Francisco|
|Rosenstock Building||1908||28-36 Geary||San Francisco|
|White House Department Store||1908||255 Sutter||San Francisco|
|California Casket Co.||1909||965 Mission||San Francisco|
|Mechanics Institute||1909||57-65 Post||San Francisco||San Francisco Landmark 134|
|Misses Butler Building||1909||120 Ellis||San Francisco|
|Rochat Cordes Building||1909||126-130 Post||San Francisco|
|W. P. Fuller Building||1909||301 Mission||San Francisco|
|Bank of Eureka||1911||240 E Street||Eureka||National Register #82002180|
|University House||1911||University House Way||Berkeley||National Register #82004652|
|Health Sciences Library||1912||2395 Sacramento||San Francisco||San Francisco Landmark 115|
|Savoy Hotel||1913||580 Geary||San Francisco|