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Macy's Union Square
Macy's Union Square is a department store building bounded by O'Farrell, Powell, Geary, and Stockton Streets in San Francisco, California, United States. The present-day building consists of several buildings that were built separately and later connected, the earliest of which was designed by Lewis P. Hobart for the O'Connor, Moffat, Kean Co. store in 1929. It has been the regional flagship store of the Macy's department store chain since 1949. In November of 2025, Macy's announced they are partnering with developer TMG Partners for the future development of its 600,000-square-foot store property, abandoning previously announced plans to leave the site in 2027.
Macy's San Francisco roots date back to 1866 and the founding of O'Connor, Moffat, Kean Co. at Second & Market Streets, eventually moving into several buildings on south Post Street, between Grant Avenue and Kearny Street, where it rebuilt after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and reopened in March 1909.
In 1928, the company, by then known as O'Connor, Moffat & Co., commissioned Lewis P. Hobart to design a new eight-story store building at 101 Stockton Street at the northwest corner of O'Farrell Street, with a projected cost of $3,400,000 ($63 million in 2025).
The new 244,000 sq ft (22,700 m2) O'Connor, Moffatt & Co. store opened to the public on March 4, 1929, clad in cream-colored terra-cotta that incorporated Neo-Gothic details, especially at the top of its façades.
R.H. Macy & Company, New York, New York acquired O'Connor Moffat in 1945 for a reported $2,175,000 in stock. On October 16, 1947, the store was rebranded as Macy's.
When announcing the merger, Macy's also announced the purchase of the six-story Brickell Building with 55 ft (17 m) of frontage on Geary Street facing Union Square, and took possession on January 1, 1946. At the time it was home to the Santa Fe Railroad ticket office (235 Geary) and the Frank More shoe store (233 Geary). A corridor gave access to Macy's from Union Square.
Macy's followed up with a major expansion of the store, incorporating 170 O'Farrell Street to the west, in 1948, commissioning the original architect of the 1928 building, Louis Parson Hobart.
The new addition, costing a reported $6,500,000 (($87.1 million in 2025) opened in September 1949, matched the façades of the older store, except at the parapet, where the florid Gothic detail was not replicated. A polished-granite first floor united both new and old parts of the store. In the interior, the 1949 remodeling kept the original square fluted columns, but a drop ceiling and "modern" lighting obscured the elaborate gothic tracery of the older store's street-floor ceiling.
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Macy's Union Square
Macy's Union Square is a department store building bounded by O'Farrell, Powell, Geary, and Stockton Streets in San Francisco, California, United States. The present-day building consists of several buildings that were built separately and later connected, the earliest of which was designed by Lewis P. Hobart for the O'Connor, Moffat, Kean Co. store in 1929. It has been the regional flagship store of the Macy's department store chain since 1949. In November of 2025, Macy's announced they are partnering with developer TMG Partners for the future development of its 600,000-square-foot store property, abandoning previously announced plans to leave the site in 2027.
Macy's San Francisco roots date back to 1866 and the founding of O'Connor, Moffat, Kean Co. at Second & Market Streets, eventually moving into several buildings on south Post Street, between Grant Avenue and Kearny Street, where it rebuilt after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and reopened in March 1909.
In 1928, the company, by then known as O'Connor, Moffat & Co., commissioned Lewis P. Hobart to design a new eight-story store building at 101 Stockton Street at the northwest corner of O'Farrell Street, with a projected cost of $3,400,000 ($63 million in 2025).
The new 244,000 sq ft (22,700 m2) O'Connor, Moffatt & Co. store opened to the public on March 4, 1929, clad in cream-colored terra-cotta that incorporated Neo-Gothic details, especially at the top of its façades.
R.H. Macy & Company, New York, New York acquired O'Connor Moffat in 1945 for a reported $2,175,000 in stock. On October 16, 1947, the store was rebranded as Macy's.
When announcing the merger, Macy's also announced the purchase of the six-story Brickell Building with 55 ft (17 m) of frontage on Geary Street facing Union Square, and took possession on January 1, 1946. At the time it was home to the Santa Fe Railroad ticket office (235 Geary) and the Frank More shoe store (233 Geary). A corridor gave access to Macy's from Union Square.
Macy's followed up with a major expansion of the store, incorporating 170 O'Farrell Street to the west, in 1948, commissioning the original architect of the 1928 building, Louis Parson Hobart.
The new addition, costing a reported $6,500,000 (($87.1 million in 2025) opened in September 1949, matched the façades of the older store, except at the parapet, where the florid Gothic detail was not replicated. A polished-granite first floor united both new and old parts of the store. In the interior, the 1949 remodeling kept the original square fluted columns, but a drop ceiling and "modern" lighting obscured the elaborate gothic tracery of the older store's street-floor ceiling.
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