Built in 1866 and occupied by A.P. Hotaling & Co., this building housed the largest liquor repository on the West Coast. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire due to a mile long fire hose laid from Fisherman's Wharf over Telegraph Hill by the U.S. Navy. This prompted the famous doggerel by Charles Field:

"If, as they say, God spanked the town

for being over frisky,

why did he burn the churches down

and save Hotaling's Whiskey?"

Marker is at the intersection of Jackson Street and Hotaling Place on Jackson Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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