{"id":24918,"date":"2018-02-06T15:45:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T23:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24918"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T23:45:20","slug":"favorite-san-francisco-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/favorite-san-francisco-skyscraper\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite San Francisco Skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/newmontg.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Craig MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been lucky. I&#8217;ve worked in a lot of big buildings in a lot of big California cities, from San Diego, Los Angeles and Anaheim to San Jose and elsewhere. But none thrilled me more than getting to work in one of the most spectacular skyscrapers in the World&#8211;140 New Montgomery St., San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-story structure, which was the city&#8217;s tallest building when completed in 1925, is not only amazing to look up at, it&#8217;s art deco&#8211;inside and out&#8211;has been praised by many top architectural critics. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/architecture\/san-francisco-140new-montgomery.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>140 New Montgomery Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Architect Timothy Pflueger<\/li>\n<li>White granite and marble<\/li>\n<li>Visited by Winston Churchill and his wife in September 1929<\/li>\n<li>Mexico&#8217;s most famous muralist Diego Rivera featured 140 in a mural<\/li>\n<li>Movies and commercials filmed there or used it as a backdrop<\/li>\n<li>Views of the Bay Bridge and fog rolling in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>San Francisco events this weekend to see, after you see 140 New Montgomery:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-russian-festivals.html\">Russian Festival<\/a> Feb.9-11, 2018 at\u00a0Russian Center of San Francisco<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-tulipmania.html\">Tulipmania<\/a> at Pier 39 Feb.10-18 at Pier 39<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco Tribal &amp; Textile Arts Show Feb.8-11 at\u00a0Fort Mason Pavilion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Craig MacDonald I\u2019ve been lucky. I&#8217;ve worked in a lot of big buildings in a lot of big California cities, from San Diego, Los Angeles and Anaheim to San Jose and elsewhere. But none thrilled me more than getting to work in one of the most spectacular skyscrapers in the World&#8211;140 New Montgomery St., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24919,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24918\/revisions\/24919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}