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