Site of Parrott Granite Block

This block was built twice. Its granite was cut and fitted in Canton province, taken down, and shipped with the men who would put it up again, the missionary William Speer wrote in 1870. In 1852 those Chinese stonemasons stopped work on John Parrott's building for higher pay, a walkout labor historians list as the earliest recorded strike by Chinese workers in the country. The three-story block came through the fire of 1906 and was pulled down in 1926 for the tower that stands here now. Nothing marks the corner.

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 — 11 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
• Earthquake Trail — 27 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

• Site of What Cheer House — steps away
• Hudson's Bay Company Headquarters — steps away
• Site of First U.S. Branch Mint — steps away
• Long Wharf — steps away