# Hotaling Building > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hotaling_Building > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hotaling_Building.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotaling_Building > Source revision: 1352719663 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Not to be confused with [Hotaling Annex West](/source/Hotaling_Annex_West). The **Hotaling Building** is a historic building located at 451 [Jackson Street](/source/Jackson_Street_(San_Francisco)) in [Jackson Square](/source/Jackson_Square,_San_Francisco), [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), [California](/source/California). It is a [San Francisco Designated Landmark](/source/San_Francisco_Designated_Landmark) (no. 12) since 1969, and is part of the [Jackson Square Historic District](/source/Jackson_Square_Historic_District).[2] The **Hotaling Annex East** is the next door building at 445 Jackson Street which used to serve as the horse stables for the Hotaling Building, and it is listed separately as a San Francisco Designated Landmark (no. 13) since 1969.[3] The **Hotaling Stables Building** is in the alley next door at 32–42 Hotaling Place, and it also served as the stables, and it is also listed separately as a San Francisco Designated Landmark (no. 11) since 1969.[4] ## History It was built in 1866 by [Anson Parsons Hotaling](/source/Anson_Parsons_Hotaling) to originally be a hotel. However, Hotaling later moved to the whiskey business. It housed the Hotaling & Co. which imported whiskey from Kentucky to create its own branded bourbon blends (J.H. Cutter and Old Kirk) for local distribution.[5] It is located along Hotaling Place (formerly Jones Alley) is the street adjacent to the building that runs along the old city shoreline.[6][5] The building façade is Italianate with cast iron and cast iron shutters, a fire-resistant type of construction.[2] It was also one of the few surviving buildings after the [1906 Earthquake and Fire](/source/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake), thanks to a mile long fire hose that stretched through [Fisherman's Wharf](/source/Fisherman's_Wharf,_San_Francisco) and [Telegraph Hill](/source/Telegraph_Hill,_San_Francisco). As the California Powder Works was blowing up buildings to create fire breaks, the employees of Hotaling & Co. rallied to move between 3,000 and 5,000 barrels from the Hotaling Building to a safer area, an empty lot where the new [customhouse](/source/United_States_Customhouse_(San_Francisco)) was under construction. It remained one of the only alcohol stocks not destroyed by the authorities after the disaster.[5] Because of the saving of the building, [Charles K. Field](/source/Charles_K._Field)[7] once stated famously, "If, as they say, God spanked the town for being over-frisky, why did He burn His churches down and spare Hotaling's whiskey?" Hotaling became one of the rare distributors of liquor in San Francisco still standing after the earthquake.[6] ## Closure and legacy Hotaling & Co. left the building in 1943 and closed. The company remained an active player of the local alcohol industry through a resurrection by the [Anchor Brewing Company](/source/Anchor_Brewing_Company), which was sold to [Sapporo](/source/Sapporo_Breweries) in 2017.[5][8] The building was revived in 1952 when Dorothy Kneedler Lawenda and Harry Lawenda of Kneedler-Fauchere purchased it and made it a center for their wholesale interior decorative design elements firm. The name Jackson Square was adopted, many buildings were renovated and the street became the interior design center for San Francisco for decades. ## See also - [List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks](/source/List_of_San_Francisco_Designated_Landmarks) ## References 1. ["City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140325040805/http://sf-planning.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=5081). City of San Francisco. Archived from [the original](http://www.sf-planning.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=5081) on 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2012-10-21. 1. ["San Francisco Landmark #12: Hotaling Building"](https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf012.asp). *Noehill.com* 1. ["San Francisco Landmark #13: Hotaling Annex East"](https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf013.asp). *Noehill.com* 1. ["San Francisco Landmark #11: Hotaling Stables"](https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf011.asp). *Noehill.com* 1. Young, Kerri (2025-06-13). ["Fun Friday: Hotaling's Whisky"](https://www.sfheritage.org/heritage-in-the-neighborhoods/hotalings-whisky/). *San Francisco Heritage*. Retrieved 2025-11-22. 1. Chamings, Andrew. ["The history of San Francisco's oldest alley"](https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/the-secrets-of-san-francisco-s-oldest-alley-16745881.php). *SFGATE*. [Archived](http://web.archive.org/web/20240130180106/https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/the-secrets-of-san-francisco-s-oldest-alley-16745881.php) 2024-01-30 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-11-22. 1. Dion R. Holm (June 1962), ["In re San Francisco (6 August 1962): Confessions of a Daring Native Son"](https://books.google.com/books?id=b0ii3_5xVTQC&dq=%22churches+down+and+spare%22+%22charles+k+field%22&pg=PA558), *American Bar Association Journal*. **48**: 558 "One of our earliest Stanford graduates, Charles K. Field by name, a cynical son of Vermont ancestors, descending from his Olympus of rhetoric, evolved the following..." 1. Gurevich, Natalia (April 18, 2025). ["Homegrown SF whiskey honors 1906 ‘quake resilience"](https://www.sfexaminer.com/culture/food-and-drink/hotaling-old-potrero-whiskey-honors-sf-earthquake-resilience/article_d5d088e4-dbb2-4558-b600-2eb90e3f3ecf.html). *[San Francisco Examiner](/source/San_Francisco_Examiner)* --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Hotaling Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotaling_Building) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotaling_Building?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.