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450 Sutter Street

Field	Value
name	450 Sutter
image	450 Sutter Street.jpg
caption	In May 2021
alternate_names	450 Sutter Medical Building
Medical-Dental Office Building
location	450 Sutter Street
San Francisco, California
architectural_style	Art Deco/ Art Moderne
coordinates
pushpin_map	United States San Francisco Central#California#USA
completion_date	October 15, 1929
building_type	Commercial offices
roof	105 m
floor_count	26
floor_area
architect	Miller and Pflueger
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name	Four Fifty Sutter Building
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nrhp_type	nrhp
built	1929
architecture	Art deco
added	December 22, 2009
refnum	09001118
references

Medical-Dental Office Building San Francisco, California

450 Sutter Street, also called the Four Fifty Sutter Building, is a twenty-six-floor, 105-meter (344-foot) skyscraper in San Francisco, California, completed in 1929. The tower is known for its "Neo-Mayan" Art Deco design by architect Timothy L. Pflueger. The building's vertically faceted exterior later influenced Pietro Belluschi in his similarly faceted exterior of 555 California, the former Bank of America Center completed in 1969.

The building's tenants are largely dental and medical professional offices.

History

In the 1960s, endocrinologist and sexologist Harry Benjamin, known for his pioneering clinical work with transgender people, opened a summer practice in the building, with many of his patients coming from the nearby Tenderloin neighborhood.

In popular culture

In the director's commentary of influential 3D adventure game Grim Fandango, game designer Tim Schafer credits the building as a major aesthetic influence. Schafer said he became familiar with 450 Sutter because his dentist's office was located on one of the upper floors, and that he had modeled the Department of Death, one of the game's most important locations, on the building.

The building is also modeled in the 2003 Maxis video game SimCity 4 as the fictional "Vu Financial" commercial office tower.

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References

"Emporis building ID 118820". [[Emporis]].
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Starr, Kevin. (1996). "Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California". Oxford University Press.
(2012). "20th Century Architecture: Former Bank of America World Headquarters". Vernacular Language North.
rprzyjohski. (2022-10-19). "About 450 Sutter - 450 Sutter".
Kane, Peter Lawrence. (2015-07-22). "The Tenderloin Museum Has Ceiling Lights in the Shape of the Tenderloin".
Conway, Lynn. "Lynn Conway's Career Retrospective, Part II".
(January 23, 2015). "Exhuming Grim Fandango's Mexican folklore inspirations".
"450 Sutter".
[https://simcity4buildings.net/index.php?lang=eng&page=gewerbe&stage=8&id=362#362 "Vu Financial"]. ''SimCity 4 Building Index''. Accessed June 13, 2023.

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