The Hibernia

You are standing before The Hibernia, a building that served as a defiant symbol of resilience after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. While much of the surrounding city fell to the disaster, this massive structure remained largely intact. Its importance was so immediate that the bank reopened its doors to depositors just five weeks after the fires were extinguished. The steel doors of the massive bank vaults took a full month to cool down before they could even be opened, but the institution itself never faltered.