Collingwood Hall

1. 1900

   Built.

2. 1909

   The Eureka Valley Promotion Association began meeting at Collingwood Hall and went on doing so through the middle of the twentieth century. The hall housed the Liberty Dramatic Club and the Eureka Vaudeville Club, the Eureka Valley Promotion Association's fiftieth-anniversary carnival in 1931, Halloween carnivals and costume balls, and dances, political meetings, children's events, religious revivals and film screenings through the 1950s and 1960s.

   Eureka Valley Historic Context Statement, adopted 2017
3. 1960s

   The Honey Bucket, one of the earliest gay bars to follow the Missouri Mule, opened here. The building had earlier held the Idono Tavern, described as a one-bar memorial to Franklin Roosevelt and a popular postwar neighbourhood bar; a Toad Hall operating at this address is a 2009 rebranding in homage to the original bar at 482 Castro Street.

   Eureka Valley Historic Context Statement, adopted 2017
4. 1970

   The Pendulum opened here in 1970 and by 1975 was the Bay Area's best-known interracial gay bar.

   Damon Scott for the Friends of 1800, Sexing the City: The Development of Sexual Identity Based Subcultures in San Francisco, 1933–1979, historic context statement, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted 2004
5. 1974

   After a police sweep outside Toad Hall on Labor Day 1974, a forum called Together gathered at Collingwood Hall to organise; Harvey Milk and Scott Smith were among the speakers.

   Eureka Valley Historic Context Statement, adopted 2017
6. 1975

   The Pendulum, a bar that fielded a team in the gay softball league, hosted the party following the league's 1975 game against the police.

   Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson, Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted by the Historic Preservation Commission November 18, 2015
7. Oct 1982

   Permit 8208829 $$$ $4,000

   Building use: apts./rest.

8. Oct 1992

   Permit 9218861 $$$ $2,000

   Change single storefront to double doors & add louvers.

9. Nov 1992

   Permit 9219498 $$$ $50,000

   Remodel existing b-2 restaurant no change in occupancy or use.

10. Feb 1993

    Permit 9302129 $$$ $2,000

    Remodel exist.restaurant(window only)/origin.perm ap 9219498.

11. Feb 1993

    Permit 9302100 $$$ $2,100

    Install(2) hood & duct fire suppression system.

12. May 2005

    Reinstated Permit 200505112203 $$$ $95,000

    Deleted cost included. open up the two sides of bar by supporting the beams with 5 posts. l.

13. Jul 2005

    Permit 200507127392 $$$ $3,000

    Remove bar&equip & dance floor(raised floor platform).interior non stru demolition only under this permit.

14. Sep 2006

    Permit 200609111884 $$$ $1,870

    Custom build install a new canvas awning over store front 33'x4'x3'.

15. Dec 2006

    Permit 200612149877 $$$ $7,000

    Repair wood stairs in rear yard (dry rot repair).

16. Jan 2007

    Permit 200701121651 $$$ $2,000

    Replace in kind rear stair. addendum to appl#200612149877.

17. Feb 2007

    Permit 200702214624 $$$ $2,000

    Revision to appl#200612149877 change framing of rear stairs.

18. Jan 2009

    Permit 200901089829 $$$ $2,000

    To abate complaint 200884021 to rextend fence height at rear patio to 9'8 above grade. this height necessary to prevent strong wind problem in outdoor patio. site was inspected on 1/6/09 by inspector mather.

19. Jul 2009

    Issued Permit 200907233312 $$$ $7,000

    Upgrade existing wet chemical systems to ul 300 (ansul) fire suppression systems to existing hood and duct.

20. Jun 2011

    Permit 201106178417 $$$ $25,500

    Converting the back of a vacant commercial into a men's room & a storage room, accessible from back patio area. install an ada-complying restroom for the vacant space. fire alarm separate permit.

21. Sep 2014

    Filed Permit 201409055611 $$$ $3,000

    Change use from dryclean to hot dog deli. subdivide storage room to a smaller one and a mechanical room. build partion in front of restroom.

22. Jun 2025

    Permit 202506128590 $$$ $10,000

    Reroofing with hot work.

DBI holds 45 permits for this parcel, most of them tenant improvements on individual floors. The timeline shows the 24 largest by stated cost, plus the earliest on file; the DBI query in the sources below returns all 45. 8 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 8 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.