Editor’s note: This article is part of an Examiner series exploring the history of some of San Francisco’s lesser-known historic landmarks. Today, we consider Landmark No. 282 on the local registry.

You can read the full series here .

With its bulging bay windows and intricate ornamental molding, the four-story Edwardian-style structure at 500-504 Fourth Street looks like a building out of time.

And in a way, it is.

For well over a century, 500 Fourth Street has been home to a series of hotels and bars, that latter of which today operates as The Hotel Utah Saloon. These days the historic hotel’s ornate architecture stands out all the more in the downtown SoMa neighborhood, where decades of redevelopment projects long ago leveled the vast majority of the neighborhood’s other venerabl

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