Pacific Gas and Electric Company General Office Building and Annex

San Francisco, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Pacific Gas and Electric Company General Office Building and Annex, located at 245 Market Street in San Francisco, is a seventeen-story Beaux-Arts office building constructed between 1923 and 1925 by the architectural firm Bakewell & Brown. The structure showcases characteristic Beaux-Arts design with an arcaded lower section spanning the first two stories, a plain vertical shaft, and multiple setbacks crowning the top four stories, with the entire exterior clad in decorative terra cotta. Following the company's rapid expansion in the late 1920s and recovery during World War II, an interconnected annex was added in 1945 that was designed to harmonize with the original building's architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.