450 Sutter Street

450 Sutter Street, also called the Four Fifty Sutter Building, is a tall building with twenty-six floors and a height of 105 meters (344 feet). It is located in San Francisco, California, and was finished in 1929. The building is famous for its special style called "Neo-Mayan" Art Deco, designed by an architect named Timothy L. Pflueger.

Because of its unique look, the building inspired another architect, Pietro Belluschi, to design a similar style for another famous building in San Francisco called 555 California, which was completed much later in 1969.

Today, many doctors and dentists have their offices inside 450 Sutter Street, making it an important place for health care in the city.

History

In the 1960s, a doctor named Harry Benjamin, who helped many people who wanted to change their gender, worked in this building during the summer. Many of his patients lived close by in the Tenderloin neighborhood.

In popular culture

The building at 450 Sutter Street inspired parts of the game Grim Fandango. The game's designer, Tim Schafer, said he used the building as a model for one of the game's important places. He knew the building well because his dentist's office was located there.

The building also appears in the 2003 video game SimCity 4 as a fictional office tower called "Vu Financial."