44 Montgomery is a 43-story, 172 m (564 ft) officeskyscraper in the heart of San Francisco'sFinancial District.[5] Groundbreaking was in the spring of 1964.[6] When completed in 1967, it was the tallest building west of Dallas, surpassed by 555 California Street (built as the world headquarters of Bank of America) in 1969. The building was designed, built and dedicated for Wells Fargo Bank, and their IT subsidiary was based there at one time (the bank's headquarters are at 464 California Street).[7]
44 Montgomery, as part of the original design anticipating the then-under-construction Bay Area Rapid Transit subway system, contains direct underground access to the Montgomery Street Station.
History
The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio purchased the building from AT&T in 1997 for $111 million. In 2017, Beacon Capital purchased it for $473 million.[8]
^"Dancing Stallion". San Francisco Examiner. April 17, 1964. p. 68.
^Some sources (as well as news reports during construction) list 44 Montgomery as the Wells Fargo world headquarters, but Wells Fargo annual reports going back to 1967 list either 464 California Street or 420 Montgomery Street as the official headquarters for Wells Fargo Bank and Wells, Fargo and Company (after 1969).