Phillip Burton Federal Building

Office in Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco

37°46′54.5″N 122°25′05.1″W / 37.781806°N 122.418083°W / 37.781806; -122.418083Opening1964^[2]HeightRoof312 ft (95 m)^[3]Technical detailsFloor count21^[1]Design and constructionArchitect(s)John Carl Warnecke and Associates^[1]

The Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse is a massive 21 floor, 312 feet (95 m) federal office building located at 450 Golden Gate Avenue near San Francisco's Civic Center and the San Francisco City Hall.^[3] The building occupies an entire city block, bounded by Golden Gate Avenue at the south, Turk Street at the north, Polk Street at the west, and Larkin Street at the east.

Designed by the local architectural firm of John Carl Warnecke and Associates in the International Style, construction was completed in 1964.

It serves as one of four courthouses for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The building was finished in 1964,^[2] one of the earliest office towers for San Francisco. It is named for former U.S. Representative Phillip Burton.

Occupants

Cafe 450 – 2nd Fl.

Federal Bureau of Investigation San Francisco Field Office – 13th Fl.^[4]

Federal Public Defender – 19th Fl.

Internal Revenue Service Help Center – 1st Fl.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Attorney's Office – 11th and 9th Fl.

U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division – 10th Fl.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. Marshals Service – 20th Fl.

San Francisco Passport Agency – 3rd Fl.

U.S. Pretrial Services – 18th Fl.

U.S. Probation – 17th Fl.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Phillip Burton Federal Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
^ ^a ^b "Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse". gsa.gov. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
^ ^a ^b "Phillip Burton Federal Building". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on February 24, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
^ "San Francisco Division." Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved on June 9, 2015. "450 Golden Gate Avenue, 13th Floor San Francisco, CA 94102-9523"

Civic Center, San Francisco

Buildings and
business

Government	50 United Nations Plaza Federal Office Building California Public Utilities Commission Civic Center Courthouse (San Francisco County Superior Court) Earl Warren Building (Supreme Court of California) Main Library Phillip Burton Federal Building (N.D. Cal.) San Francisco City Hall San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Cultural	Asian Art Museum Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Herbst Theatre Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center SHN Orpheum Theatre War Memorial Opera House
Education	The Art Institute of California – San Francisco Minerva Schools at KGI San Francisco Conservatory of Music University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Other	Brooks Hall Fox Plaza Stars

Geography

Civic Center Plaza
United Nations Plaza

Public art

Double L Excentric Gyratory
Firefly
Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness
Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73
Pioneer Monument
San Francisco Veterans Memorial
Simón Bolívar
Statue of Abraham Lincoln
Statue of Ashurbanipal
Three Heads Six Arms

Transportation

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