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140 New Montgomery Street, also known as the PacBell Building, in San Francisco's South of Market district is an Art Deco office tower located close to the St. Regis Museum Tower and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.〔 The 26-floor building was originally called the Pacific Telephone Building when it was completed in 1925, and it was San Francisco's first significant skyscraper development when construction began in 1924.〔 The building was the first high-rise south of Market Street,〔Sharon Simonson: (Yelp Occupies 140 New Montgomery ). The Registry SF, August 19, 2013〕 and the tallest in San Francisco until the Russ Building matched its height two years later in 1927. Along with the Russ Building, it remained the city's tallest until it was overtaken by 650 California Street in 1964. AT&T sold the building in 2007, and as of 2013, Internet company Yelp is the main tenant. ==Construction and original tenant== At the time of its construction, it housed Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, a member of the Bell System. The building once had a bell motif in many places on its façade, most notably surrounding the arch over the main entrance doors on New Montgomery Street. After the breakup of the Bell System (AT&T) in 1982 and the formation the regional so-called Baby Bell companies, Pacific Telephone changed its name to "Pacific Bell." However, Pacific Bell was forbidden from using the former Bell System trademark and the granite-colored, terra cotta exterior panels that had bells on them were replaced with plain panels. Statues of eight eagles (each 13 feet in height) perch atop the tower's crown. The building has an L-shaped floor plan, and the architecture decoratively incorporates spotlights to show the exterior's terra cotta ornamentation day and night. In 1929, Winston Churchill visited the building and made one of the first transatlantic telephone calls.〔http://140nm.com/pdf/churchill.pdf〕 For 44 years until 1978, the top of the roof was used to convey official storm warnings to sailors at the direction of the US Weather Bureau, in the form of a 25 foot long triangular red flag by day, and a red light at night.〔http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Pac-Bell-Rings-In-70th-Birthday-of-S-F-3022020.php〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「140 New Montgomery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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