The White House, San Francisco, California

In 1909, Rafael Weill & Company moved to a
new, terra-cotta faced structure after its original
store was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.

The gleaming white facades of the 1909 building were
wholly appropriate to the store's name; though the
building became a icon in San Francisco, the store
spread across the block to Grant Street in various
annexes and additions.

Like its competitor, The City of Paris, The White House
was known for its french atmosphere.  In fact he store
bore more than just a passing resemblance to the great
Parisian department stores like "Au Bon Marché."

The White House (1854)
Raphael Weil & Co.
256 Grant Avenue
San Francisco, California 

DOuglas 1-4000

Downstairs

Housewares • Home Appliances • Unpainted Furniture • Patio Furniture • Shoe Clinic • Photograph Studio

The White House Downstairs Section

Street Floor

Jewelry • Fine Jewelry • Bags • Small Leather • Accessory Shops • La Boutique • Neckwear • Hat Bar • Blouses • Sweaters • Separates • Casual Dress Shop • Street Floor Lingerie • Campus Choice Accessories • Cosmetics • Drug Sundries • Shoe Salon • Notions • Stationery • Books

Street Floor • Post St. Bldg.

Men's Store Men's Furnishings • Men's Sportswear • Men's Clothing • Men's Hats • Gentlemen's Shoes

Second Floor

Terrace Shop • Grant Avenue Shop • Dress Circle • Gown Salon • Young Sophisticates • Sports Shop • Coat Salon • Suit Salon • Women's Shop • Dress Salon • Chandelier Room • Fur Shop • Bridal Salon • Young Couture • Millinery Salon • Nurses' Uniforms • Maternity Shop • Negligees • Lingerie • Foundations • Robes

Junior Colony Junior Sportswear • Junior Dresses • Junior Coats • Little Shop

Children's World Infants' Shop • Children's Shop • Girls' Shop • Hi-Shop • Children's Shoes

Second Floor • Post St. Bldg.

Boys' Shop

Third Floor

Gift Shop • China Shop • Glassware • Silver Shop • Linens • Pictures • Mirrors • Lamps • Bedding • Casa Mexicana • Campus Choice Furnishings • Rugs • Oriental Rug Bazaar

Third Floor • Post St. Bldg.

Furniture • Slumber Shop

Fourth Floor

Radio-Record Shop • TV Shop • Garden Court • Sporting Goods • Toyland • Antoine Salon de Beauté • Trim-A-Home Shop • Trim-A-Tree Shop • Tea Room

Fourth Floor • Post St. Bldg.

Art Needle • Sewing Machine Center • Textiles

Fifth Floor

Offices • Credit • Cashier • Personnel

Street Floor

Beauty Salon • Jewelry • Fine Jewelry • Bags • Small Leather • Accessory Shops • La Boutique • Neckwear • Hat Bar • Blouses • Sweaters • Separates • Street Floor Lingerie • Campus Choice Accessories • Cosmetics • Drug Sundries • Shoe Salon • Notions • Stationery • Books

Men's Store Men's Furnishings • Men's Sportswear • Men's Clothing • Men's Hats • Gentlemen's Shoes

Second Floor

Terrace Shop • Casual Shop • Grant Avenue Shop • Dress Circle • Gown Salon • Young Sophisticates • Sports Shop • Coat Salon • Suit Salon • Women's Shop • Dress Salon • Chandelier Room • Fur Shop • Bridal Salon • Young Couture • Millinery Salon • Nurses' Uniforms • Maternity Shop • Negligees • Lingerie • Foundations • Robes

Junior Colony Junior Sportswear • Junior Dresses • Junior Coats • Little Shop

Children's World Infants' Shop • Children's Shop • Girls' Shop • Hi-Shop • Children's Shoes • Boys' Shop

Third Floor

Gift Shop • China Shop • Glassware • Silver Shop • Linens • Pictures • Mirrors • Lamps • Bedding • Casa Mexicana • Campus Choice Furnishings • Rugs • Oriental Rug Bazaar • 

Furniture • Slumber Shop • Housewares • Home Appliances • Unpainted Furniture • Patio Furniture • Radio-Record Shop • TV Shop • Garden Court • Sporting Goods • Toyland • Trim-A-Home Shop • Trim-A-Tree Shop • Art Needle • Sewing Machine Center • Textiles

Oakland
Kaiser Center
20th and Webster
July, 1960
126,000 s.f.

Coming in due course.