Editor’s note: This article is part of an Examiner series exploring the history of some of The City’s lesser-known historic landmarks . Today, we consider Landmark No. 58 on The City’s local registry, the San Francisco Gas Light Company building located in the Marina.

You can read the full series here .

With its thick red-brick walls and circular tower, the San Francisco Gas Light Company building bears a passing resemblance to a medieval castle with a steampunk twist, making it a strange neighbor to the Safeway that now stands just across the street.

But perhaps its keep-like appearance is entirely fitting, given that, today, the 132-year-old structure is the sole remaining stronghold for the Marina’s industrial past, having survived the 1906 earthquake, technological obsolescence

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