Rincon Center (Rincon Annex Post Office)

The Rincon Center is identified by a wide, mid-century modern atrium where a wall of water cascades down into a reflecting pool. Built as the main postal facility for San Francisco in nineteen thirty-nine, the building replaced a railyard with a fortress of Art Deco limestone. Inside, twenty-seven murals by Anton Refregier depict the history of California. One panel showed the nineteen thirty-four waterfront strike, which prompted a congressman to demand the work be painted over because it looked too communist.