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Landmark Octagon House Just Relisted for Over a Million Less

Landmark Octagon House Just Relisted for Over a Million Less

Joining the growing list of San Francisco properties that were quietly delisted from the MLS last year, without a reported sale, and are now returning to the market, as expected, the landmark Feusier Octagon House at 1067 Green Street, which is one of the oldest houses on Russian Hill,... Read More »

Plans for the Conversion of This Landmarked Building

Plans for the Conversion of This Landmarked Building

As we foreshadowed back in 2017: Designed by Albert Pissis and built in 1912, CPMC’s 20,000-square-foot Health Sciences Library Building at 2395 Sacramento Street was designated a San Francisco Historic Landmark 37 years ago. But with the library having since been digitized and its services gone virtual, the Sacramento... Read More »

Landmark Octagon House Reduced $800K

Landmark Octagon House Reduced $800K

As we outlined back in 2015, when half of the landmark home was listed on Craigslist as a rental for $10,000 a month, the Feusier Octagon House at 1067 Green Street is one of the oldest houses on Russian Hill. Built in the mid-1800s, the home was ordered to... Read More »

Plans to Redevelop Landmarked Theater Back in Play

Plans to Redevelop Landmarked Theater Back in Play

Plans for redeveloping the former El Rey Theater at 1970 Ocean Avenue, which was purchased out of foreclosure for $1.06 million in 2015 and subsequently designated an official San Francisco Landmark (No. 274), were drafted and submitted to the City back in 2019. As we outlined at the time:... Read More »

Landmark Bank and Former MOIC Building on the Market

Landmark Bank and Former MOIC Building on the Market

Designed by Bliss and Faville and built on the northwest corner of Grant and O’Farrell in 1910, the historic Savings Union Bank building at 1 Grant Avenue, a.k.a. the Security Pacific Bank building, is on the market. Most recently home to the since shuttered Museum of Ice Cream (MOIC),... Read More »

Landmark Mansion on the Market for $5.85M

Landmark Mansion on the Market for $5.85M

Known as “Nobby Clarke’s Folly” back in the day, the 8,395-square-foot Alfred E. Clarke Mansion at 250 Douglass Street, which occupies the southwest corner of Caselli Avenue in Eureka Valley/Corbett Heights, is now on the market with a $5.85 million price tag. Built for Alfred “Nobby” Clarke on the... Read More »

Price for Hacker Church and Rectory Dropped Nearly 50 Percent

Price for Hacker Church and Rectory Dropped Nearly 50 Percent

As we outlined in October of last year: 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 Archdiocese of San Francisco sold the church along with the adjacent 4,700-square-foot residential building, uphill at 908 Broadway,... Read More »

Redevelopment of Historic Church Closer to Reality

Redevelopment of Historic Church Closer to Reality

The Pollard Group’s plans to landmark the former Sacred Heart Church turned skating rink at 554 Fillmore Street, in a perhaps counter intuitive move to facilitate its redevelopment into a mix of 9,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space and 33 residential units, a move which nearly backfired,... Read More »

New Plans for Landmark Sentinel Building Have Been Drawn

New Plans for Landmark Sentinel Building Have Been Drawn

Finished in 1907, having been under construction during the great quake of 1906, the now landmark Columbus Tower/Sentinel Building at 916 Kearny Street was purchased by Francis Ford Coppola in the early 70s and is currently configured as six floors of office/film studio space over the ground floor Café... Read More »

Landmark “Hacker” Church Back on the Market for $7.5M

Landmark “Hacker” Church Back on the Market for $7.5M

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 Archdiocese of San Francisco sold the church along with the adjacent 4,700-square-foot residential building, uphill at 908 Broadway, to an investor for $2.3 million in 2013. And... Read More »