255 Sutter Street, also known as The White House Building, is a steel-frame and concrete retail building and parking garage building clad in terra cotta and cast iron with a dark green granite base at the sidewalk. It was constructed in 1909 and designed by prominent San Francisco Architect Albert Pissis. It was a department store until 1965, with the upper floors converted into a parking garage in 1967. The Ground Floor retail was remodeled most recently in 1991. The primary elevations are located along the North (Sutter Street) and the West (Grant Avenue). The Building was originally designed in the Beaux Arts style as a four-story department store, with a Fifth Floor added some time after 1930. The San Francisco Historic Planning Commission identifies the building as an Article 11 (Category I) Historic Resource, as a Contributor to the Kearny-Market-Mason-Sutter Conservation District.
In compliance with San Francisco’s Façade Inspection and Maintenance Ordinance, the Owner retained MCA to perform a façade inspection, providing recommendations for the repair of the Building’s exterior envelope. MCA provided the Owner with a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost estimate of the work necessary to bring the entire façade into serviceable condition. The Owner hired MCA to complete the facade rehabilitation which included repairing extensive cracks, crazing, spalls, and corrosion.
