sentences:  The "San Francisco Chronicle"'s architecture critic John King described the Russ Building as "the embodiment of Jazz Age romance, a full block of ornate Gothic-flavored masonry that ascends in jagged stages from Montgomery Street with a leap and then a scramble to a central crown".The tower is a California Historical Landmark.Until the emergence of Sand Hill Road in the 1980s, many of the largest venture capital firms held offices in the Russ Building.