 Over the coming decades, the "Chronicle" saw massive growth alongside that of San Francisco, weathering the 1880 assassination of Charles de Young in the "Chronicle" offices.In 1890, the company built the (Old) Chronicle Building, a ten-story building at Kearny and Market Streets that was at the time the , as well as the first to use steel framing.That building was superseded by the final company headquarters, still used by the "Chronicle", which were built in 1924 at Fifth and Mission Streets.