The White House (department store)

The White House was the first department store in San Francisco; it opened in 1854 and closed in 1965.

Davidson & Company, and finally, in 1870, when it moved to a large new building, took the name "The White House".

[3] Raphael Weill, who came to San Francisco in 1855,[4][5] was a prominent "philanthropist, epicure, and patron of the arts".

[2] The Davidson & Lane Dry Goods Company originally opened in 1854 at the corner of Post and Grant.

After that store burned down in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the third location, designed by Albert Pissis and clad in white terra cotta,[15] was at Sutter and Grant, with street address 256 Grant Avenue.