The Folger Coffee Company Building

When I read some coffee house reviews on Unilocal,I found someone wrote this. «Ewww, their coffee tasted like Folgers!»
I love San Francisco so here is my review.
The Folger Coffee Company was born in San Francisco and this is the building as a former headquarter.
After three brothers arrived in San Francisco all the way from Nantucket Island, risking their lives, the youngest one named James A. Folger founded the company in 1850, just one year after the Gold Rush had started.
This building was built later in 1905 and survived from major earthquakes twice in 1906 and 1989. This building was built as an office space, a processing plant and a warehouse.
It is located on the corner of Howard St. and Spear St., just half block from the historic Rincon Center. Although it sits mostly unnoticed but this is one of the most beautiful red brick building in downtown San Francisco. When I visited this building with a friend of mine the other day, I noticed the sophisticated configuration of the bricks, especially in arches. Then a friend of mine wanted to go to a restroom at Rincon Center near Yank Sing, the famous dim sum place, I stayed on the street so that I could see the building more. Yank Sing usually places their small sign on Spear St. and I was sitting by the sign and looked around the area. Then I found a very cool thing.
The Folger building is very classy but the classier part is that at least 4 surrounding buildings have red-​brick-​like tiles in some parts of their buildings.
I am not an architect but I know how to enjoy old buildings. Why do those new tall buildings all have red tiles which exactly look like red bricks? The answer is «to pay homage to or respect for the existing building, The Folger Building.» One building even has arches above the windows just like The Folger Building.
When an architect has to design a new building and if he is thoughtful and considerate, he will observe the surroundings then he will come up with the design with adapted colors and shapes from surrounding buildings to pay respect. This is a cool practice that I love. I don’t like a selfish architect who builds a new building without this practice, saying «Look at my unique design! It is futuristic and cool!» I was very glad to find that at least 4 architects paid homage to Folger Building, which holds the high status as «National Register of Historic Place.»
The Folger Coffee Company is like a grandfather of the coffee world. We really cannot say «You are out of fashion! You stink!» to the grandfather. We just respect for the history. And its building is usually unnoticed but if you stop walking for a few minutes and look up at it, you will feel the spirit of the pioneer in coffee making of San Francisco.