One Hundred McAllister Street Tower San Francisco, 4.

When One Hundred McAllister Street opened in 1930, it was the combined home of several Methodist churches, called the William Taylor Hotel, named for a street preacher during the gold rush. The idea was that by pooling their funds and operating an onsite hotel, they could more easily pay for the construction costs of their church. Then the depression hit. It reopened in 1936, now as the Empire Hotel, and this new owner wanted to put in a bar to help pay for the expenses. Due to the law at the time prohibiting drinking establishments from being with in 200 feet of a church, their only option was to go all the way up, establishing the cities very first roof top bar, and with a 360 degree view of the surrounding city below. And then came WW2, and the federal government took over the whole building, until new federal more buildings opened in the 1960`s. After nearby Hastings Law School bought the building, it was finally turned into much needed student dorms in 1982, and closed to the public ever since. As seen October 2021.

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