The Fallon Building , also known as the Carmel Fallon Building , is a historic mixed-use building built in 1894 and located in the Castro District of San Francisco, California. It is the home of the San Francisco LGBT Center since 2002.
5-572: The building has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since November 8, 1998. The Fallon Building is located at an intersection corner at 1800 Market Street in San Francisco. The three-story, 6,000-square-foot building was designed by architect, Edward D. Goodrich in a Queen Anne style . The structure was built in 1894 for Carmel Lodge Fallon (she has many variations of name, also known as Maria del Carmen Juana Josefa Cota Fallon, Martina Castro Fallon, or Carmelita Castro Fallon),
10-464: A Californio entrepreneur and landowner, she had inherited land in the area of Soquel . She was divorced from Thomas Fallon , a United States Army Commander that had conquered the city of San Jose for the United States in 1846, and he later served as the mayor of the city. Fallon was also the niece of José Antonio Castro , the last Mexican Governor of Alta California ; and the namesake of
15-624: The Castro District and Castro Street. In December 1996, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center purchased the building. The Fallon Building had been subject to decades long debates on architecture preservation, and subject to many remodels. The group, "Friends of 1800 Market Street" was formed by Jim Siegel and others, named after the address of the Fallon Building with the mission of preserving
20-553: The architectural heritage of San Francisco, among other things. San Francisco Designated Landmark This is a list of San Francisco Designated Landmarks . In 1967, the city of San Francisco, California , adopted Article 10 of the Planning Code, providing the city with the authority to designate and protect landmarks from inappropriate alterations. As of June 2024, the city had designated 318 structures or other properties as San Francisco Designated Landmarks. Many of
25-793: The properties have also received recognition at the federal level by inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places or by designation as National Historic Landmarks . Download coordinates as: Washington and Mason Streets, northwest corner; now called the San Francisco Cable Car Museum Formerly the Occidental Board Presbyterian Mission House; residence of Donaldina Cameron Built in 1908, designed by Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville Inside of Golden Gate Park Since 1972,
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