[3] The site's primary function was to serve as a temporary home for young women moving to the city for work from small towns or from overseas.

[3] As the organization shrank in the late twentieth century, it struggled to continually raise funds to maintain the large structure; repairs and seismic retrofitting after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake were especially burdensome.

[4] Highbridge Equity Partners bought the building in 2019 with plans for a hotel conversion but failed to secure funding and continued to be leased to both Common and Envision.

And the local YWCA president, Grace Merriam Fisher, knew Morgan personally from the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at UC Berkeley.

That atrium has Corinthian columns and is topped with an entablature containing a Scripture passage in gold lettering:[3] The heavens declare glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork.