Plans for Pac Heights Redevelopment Entitled! But…
As we outlined at the end of last year, plans for converting the landmarked Health Sciences Library building on the southeast corner of Sacramento and Webster into a 24-unit luxury…
Refined Plans for Conversion of Landmarked Library, But…
Purchased for $9.5 million at the end of 2017, plans to convert the landmarked Health Sciences Library building on the southeast corner of Sacramento and Webster into a 24-unit luxury…
Historic Hacker Church and Rectory Trying the “Auction” Route
As we outlined in October of 2019: Built in 1912, the 15,000-square-foot Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 906 Broadway was designated San Francisco Landmark #204 back in 1993. The…
Landmark Firehouse 8 on the Market for $7.35 Million
Built in 1917 and landmarked in 1988, the Russian Hill firehouse at 1648 Pacific Avenue was sold in a city auction for $1.8 million in 2007. The buyers, Gavin Jefferies…
A Move to Landmark The Upper Haight Is Underway
While ground zero for the nation’s “hippie” and counter-culture movement in the 1960s, and one of the neighborhoods most commonly associated with the ethos of San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, or The…
Fairmont Hotel Salon To Close, New Rooms To Be Added
The new owners of the historic Fairmont Hotel are planning to close its beauty parlor, the Mr. Eckhard Beauty Salon, on the mezzanine level of the hotel’s lobby and convert…
Rube Goldberg Building Poised To Be Landmarked, Tenants Evicted
Against the wishes of the building’s owner, San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission is poised to recommend that the two-story R. L. Goldberg Building at 182-198 Gough Street be designated a…
Swedish American Hall Should Be A Landmark, Ja?
Designed by Swedish-born master architect August Nordin and built in 1907, the Swedish American Hall at 2168 Market Street is on its way to becoming an official San Francisco landmark.…
San Francisco’s Historic <1 Percent and Eleven Landmark Districts
Since 1967, roughly 260 individual structures have been designated as San Francisco Landmarks. And since 1972, eleven Landmark Districts have been designated throughout the City, including 85 city blocks and…
San Francisco’s 12th Landmark District: Duboce Park?
With 65 percent of the 34 surveyed property owners within the district in support, 29 percent opposed, and 6 percent indifferent, San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission is moving forward with…