Brick Warehouses

San Francisco’s early days as a port and industrial center are recorded in its brick warehouses. The earliest are from Gold Rush era; for instance, the Trinidad Bean and Elevator Company building, near the Embarcadero, dates to 1855. And having an office with exposed brick walls in a refurbished warehouse in SoMa has been a status symbol for tech companies since the first dot-com boom in the 1990s.