San Francisco's Old Mint Will Become City Museum

Preservation, October, 2005 by Stephanie Smith

Tomorrow the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society will host a ceremonial groundbreaking and fundraiser to celebrate the future San Francisco Museum at the city's 131-year-old Old Mint.

The society is leasing the Greek revival building from the city after the city accepted its proposal to rehabilitate the "Granite Lady" as a city history museum and visitors center with a restaurant, shops, and offices. Previously owned by the federal government, the building was placed on the National Trust's 11 Most Endangered list in 1994, a year after the Old Mint was closed, partly due to its need for expensive seismic retrofitting.

Though the Old Mint is on the edge of a redevelopment area, the turning point for saving the National Historic Landmark building, says Michael...

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