apartments

A collection of 15 posts

Pacific Heights

The Last of Tucker Town

Is San Francisco's oldest tract house in Pacific Heights?

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #63

Cliff-dwellers of Polk Street, more San Francisco house-moving, and our time-machine goes tiki.

Mission Bay

Dumpville

When Mission Creek was San Francisco's dumping ground.

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Grab Bag #53

Bars, hogs, mansions, and memories: a typical San Francisco Grab Bag from Woody.

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Grab Bag #52

Signs of the times and San Francisco views here and gone.

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Grab Bag #50

Apartments in a park, baseball in a pasture, parents in a nightclub, and one goat.

Russian Hill

Living Off the Grid

San Francisco's 1840s Laguna Survey gave the city some growing pains

Western Addition

Tales from the Hotel Jefferson

Beginnings and ends in San Francisco’s Western Addition.

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Grab Bag #45

Super-sized San Francisco history hash of huckster cowboys, old cars, old bars, ruined mansions, hitching posts, and Lotta's fountain.

Richmond District

Carzonia Apartments

Cable-car-house living in the Richmond District after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

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Grab Bag #44

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Grab Bag #40

Exploding cannons, secret water tanks, and funeral pick-pockets from ye olde San Francisco.

Mission District

Mixed-Use Mission Street

What changed and what didn't on one San Francisco block after the 1906 earthquake and fire.

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Grab Bag #025

Pacific Heights

The Irving Institute

The scholastic past of a grand California Street apartment building.