The Women's Building is a women-led non-profit arts and education community center located in San Francisco, California.
[5] The Center is shielded from rising real estate costs in the Mission District because it owns the building free and clear, having paid off the mortgage in 1995.
[7] The four-story structure was built in 1910 by architect August Reinhold Denke, for the German Turnverein exercise movement.
Other organizations associated with various national or ethnic groups have also used the building, such as the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West.
[9] In 1997, The Women's Building began to undergo a $5 million renovation prompted by mandatory seismic retrofitting to meet city standards.
It was painted by women artists, including Juana Alicia, Miranda Bergman, Edythe Boone, Susan Kelk Cervantes (cofounder of Precita Eyes Muralists Association), Meera Desai, Yvonne Littleton, and Irene Perez, along with their helpers and volunteers.