City of Paris Building

No state plaque marks the site, and the building the register describes is gone. It was registered in January 1975, after Neiman Marcus had bought the store and announced it would tear it down; a National Register listing, a petition of tens of thousands of signatures and legal challenges followed. The building came down in 1981 anyway. What survived is the rotunda and its 1909 glass dome, sent east for restoration and set into Philip Johnson's new store. The only text on the site is the store's own printed panel inside.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Beach Overlook — 11 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.
• Muir Woods National Monument — 12 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
• Earthquake Trail — 28 mi
  A short loop along the San Andreas, where a broken fence shows how far Point Reyes moved in under a minute in 1906.
• Kule Loklo — 28 mi
  A Coast Miwok village built in the 1970s to honour a people its builders were told had died out. They had not.

More markers nearby

• Union Square — steps away
• California Theatre — 0.2 mi
• Old United States Mint — 0.3 mi
• Site of First California State Fair — 0.4 mi