Hotaling Building, 19th-century commercial building in Jackson Square, San Francisco, US

The Hotaling Building on Jackson Street is a four-story 19th-century red brick structure with Italianate architectural details visible on its facades. The building's design shows the ornamental characteristics typical of its construction period and commercial function.

Anson Parsons Hotaling built it in 1866 as a hotel, then used it for Hotaling & Co., importing Kentucky whiskey and bottling J.H. Cutter and Old Kirk bourbons. After the 1906 earthquake, employees moved 3,000 to 5,000 barrels to an empty lot, saving the stock. Hotaling & Co. left in 1943; in 1952 Kneedler-Fauchere bought the building.

The building's name comes from Anson Parsons Hotaling, whose firm imported Kentucky whiskey and sold J.H. Cutter and Old Kirk bourbon. Hotaling & Co. left in 1943; in 1952 Dorothy Kneedler Lawenda and Harry Lawenda of Kneedler-Fauchere bought the building for their wholesale interior design firm, and the street became San Francisco's interior design center for decades.

The building stands at 451 Jackson Street, with its former stables at 445 Jackson Street and in Hotaling Place, the alley beside it that follows the old city shoreline. The surrounding Jackson Square blocks are flat and walkable, and the entrance fronts the sidewalk on Jackson Street.

The mile-long fire hose credited with saving the building ran from Fisherman's Wharf through Telegraph Hill. Employees also carried 3,000 to 5,000 barrels of whiskey to an empty lot where the new customhouse was being built, and this stock was among the few not destroyed by authorities after the disaster.