Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/117

1898
 * United States v. Wong Kim Ark is decided in favor of Wong Kim Ark (pictured, left), who is thus considered a U.S. citizen
 * The San Francisco Ferry Building (pictured, right), designed by A. Page Brown, opens
 * A columbarium (pictured, right) is built at Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco by Bernard J. S. Cahill, to complement an earlier columbarium built by him
 * The Baldwin Hotel (pictured, right) in San Francisco, built in 1876, burns down
 * Francis K. Shattuck dies after being knocked down by a man exiting from a train that Shattuck was attempting to board on the eponymous Shattuck Avenue