Flood Building

David Perry & Associates, Inc. his honored to represent the national historic landmark Flood Building www.floodbuilding.com – for over 100 years a symbol of the City its namesake, James Clair Flood, helped define. His son, James L. Flood, started construction in tribute to his father in 1902 and hired architect Albert Pissis to design the twelve-story, 292,360 square foot building at a cost $1,500,000. When it was completed in 1904 it was the largest building in San Francisco.

On April 16, 1906, the newly completed Flood Building was one of the very few structures to survive both the earthquake and the subsequent great fire. Its steel frame structure with brick curtain walls covered in gray Colusa sandstone proved to be substantial enough to withstand the epic 8.3 magnitude tremblor. The building was restored and re-opened in 1907. Since then, the corner of Powell & Market has become “one of the world’s prime pieces of real estate, dominated by the Flood Building” (San Francisco Chronicle) renowned as “the city’s most monumental office building” (Splendid Survivors: San Francisco’s Downtown Architectural Heritage). Quite simply, the Flood Building “is the grand dame of San Francisco” (Andy Edwards, Vice President, CB Richard Ellis).

Pat Yollin’s "SF Chronicle" feature on the landmark Flood Building read

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