The building at 717 Battery St. in San Francisco’s Jackson Square neighborhood (also referred to as the Barbary Coast area), has quite the history behind it.
According to a story in the San Francisco Examiner, the property, known as the Musto Building, was constructed in 1907 to replace a marble workshop destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Over the years the building housed candy and crating companies. In recent times it was used as office space, but had deteriorated significantly.