The Mills Building and Tower is a two building complex following the Chicago school

Chicago school (architecture)

Chicago's architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. The style is also known as Commercial style. In the history of architecture, the Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century...

 with Romanesque

Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterised by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque architecture, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 10th century. It developed in the 12th century into the Gothic style,...

 design elements in the financial district of San Francisco, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. The structures were declared San Francisco Designated Landmark #76, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1974.

The original 10 storey

Storey

A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...

, 47 m (154.2 ft) structure was designed by Burnham and Root

Burnham and Root

Burnham and Root was the name of the company that John Wellborn Root and Daniel Hudson Burnham established as one of Chicago's most famous architectural companies of the nineteenth century....

/D.H. Burnham & Company completed 1892; and after surviving the 1906 earthquake, Willis Polk

Willis Polk

Willis Jefferson Polk was an American architect best known for his work in San Francisco, California.-Life:He was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and was related to United States President James Polk....

 in 1907, 1914, and 1918. Named for early San Francisco financial tycoon, Darius Ogden Mills

Darius Ogden Mills

Darius Ogden Mills was a prominent American banker, philanthropist and, for a time, California's wealthiest citizen.-Biography:...

, it is regarded as the city's first skyscraper.

Completed in 1931 at 220 Bush Street, Mills Tower is a 22 storey, 92 m (301.8 ft) annex designed by George W. Kelham

George W. Kelham

George William Kelham was an American architect most active in the San Francisco area.Born in Manchester, Massachusetts, Kelham was educated at Harvard and graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1896...

 and Lewis Parsons Hobart.

The Mills building is home to several major financial firms including, Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

, Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch is the wealth management division of Bank of America. With over 15,000 financial advisors and $2.2 trillion in client assets it is the world's largest brokerage. Formerly known as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., prior to 2009 the firm was publicly owned and traded on the New York...

, New York Stock Exchange

New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...

, and Newedge

Newedge

Newedge Group is a diversified financial services group formed from the merger of Fimat and Calyon Financial, the brokerage arms of French financial giants Société Générale and Credit Agricole's capital markets business. It offers execution, clearing, prime brokerage investment, and asset financing...

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External links

• The Mills Building official website