Historic
Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid Center (locally known in some communities as “Big Pointy") is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. Located at 600 Montgomery Street between Clay and Washington Streets in the city's Financial District, it was the tallest building in San Francisco from its completion in 1972 until 2017. The building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, which moved its U.S. headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland.
Why it's on the map
It is built on reclaimed land and stands on what was once the shoreline of Yerba Buena Cove, around which the Mexican pueblo of Yerba Buena was founded in 1834.
The hull of the whaling vessel Niantic, an artifact of the 1849 California Gold Rush, lay almost beneath the Transamerica Pyramid, and the location is marked by a historical plaque outside the building (California Historical Landmark #88).
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