{
  "address": "573–575 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA 94114",
  "path": "/san-francisco/castro/castro-street/573/",
  "apn": "3583061",
  "block": "3583",
  "lot": "061",
  "eas_baseid": "360804",
  "coordinates": {
    "lat": 37.759775,
    "lng": -122.434535
  },
  "address_range": "573–575",
  "street_numbers_on_parcel": [
    "573",
    "575"
  ],
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    "units": 2,
    "stories": 2,
    "rooms": 7,
    "bathrooms": 2,
    "lot_area_sqft": 3123,
    "building_area_sqft": 2750,
    "use": "Multi-Family Residential",
    "property_class": "Flat & Store 4 units or less",
    "construction_type_code": "D",
    "zoning": "CASTRO",
    "supervisor_district": 8,
    "assessor_neighborhood": "Eureka Valley/Dolores Heights",
    "analysis_neighborhood": "Castro/Upper Market",
    "property_location_raw": "0575 0573 CASTRO              ST0000"
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    "assessed_land_value": 1261938,
    "assessed_improvement_value": 480737,
    "last_sale_date": "2014-11-13"
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    "ceqa_status_code_article_10_11": "A*",
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    "reason": "Article 10 Individual Landmark, California Register Historic District, Historic Survey Result",
    "yearbuilt": "1900",
    "survey_name": "CASTRO CAMERA",
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    "source": "sf-planning"
  },
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    "name": "Eureka Valley Commercial & Castro Village LGBTQ+ Historic District",
    "california_register_status": "Eligible (not listed)",
    "national_register_status": "Not listed",
    "article_10_11_status": "No local landmark protection",
    "local_landmark_protection": false,
    "period_of_significance": "1879–1932; 1963–1980",
    "source": "sf-historic-districts"
  },
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      "number": "201904188414",
      "type": "additions alterations or repairs",
      "status": "reinstated",
      "filed": "2019-04-18",
      "status_date": "2023-12-11",
      "estimated_cost": 5000,
      "revised_cost": 5000,
      "description": "to comply w/ enf# 2018-017359 enf. to reconstruct historic storefront projecting element was removed w/o permit. reconstructed storefront element to match original in dimension,profile,material & finish include installation of metal fascia consistent w/ internation style historic storefront.",
      "source": "sf-building-permits"
    },
    {
      "number": "201811014798",
      "type": "otc alterations permit",
      "status": "cancelled",
      "filed": "2018-11-01",
      "status_date": "2018-11-01",
      "description": "decals for window signage not exceeding 1/3 window area. approved per article 10. meets transparency guidelines. no other work. apply decal to interior of windows - harvey milk",
      "source": "sf-building-permits"
    },
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      "number": "201811014812",
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      "revised_cost": 975,
      "description": "decals for window signage not exceeding 1/3 window area. approved per article 10. meets transparency guidelines. no other work. apply decal to interior of windows - harvey milk",
      "source": "sf-building-permits"
    },
    {
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      "status": "cancelled",
      "filed": "2018-06-25",
      "status_date": "2019-05-29",
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      "description": "replace existing awning/sign band with new to include graphics",
      "source": "sf-building-permits"
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    {
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      "description": "to paint sign on replacement awning (pa #2018-0625-2803)",
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      "status_date": "2014-10-24",
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      "description": "new awning to be erected on facade of building",
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    {
      "number": "200812178681",
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      "status_date": "2014-10-24",
      "estimated_cost": 850,
      "description": "non-electric lettering for awning",
      "source": "sf-building-permits"
    },
    {
      "number": "M102610",
      "type": "otc alterations permit",
      "status": "issued",
      "filed": "2008-01-14",
      "status_date": "2008-01-14",
      "revised_cost": 1,
      "description": "street space permit only.",
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    },
    {
      "number": "200504271055",
      "type": "otc alterations permit",
      "status": "complete",
      "filed": "2005-04-27",
      "status_date": "2005-05-18",
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      "revised_cost": 13350,
      "description": "reroofing",
      "source": "sf-building-permits"
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    {
      "number": "9910013",
      "type": "otc alterations permit",
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      "status_date": "1999-08-17",
      "estimated_cost": 7500,
      "description": "pay fine two times penalty on complt-9909432 attached sht",
      "source": "sf-building-permits"
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    {
      "number": "9909432",
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      "filed": "1999-05-13",
      "status_date": "1999-08-17",
      "estimated_cost": 1500,
      "description": "remodel 9e) kitchen and bath new fixtures & flooring",
      "source": "sf-building-permits"
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    {
      "number": "9014305",
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      "status": "expired",
      "filed": "1990-07-20",
      "status_date": "1990-12-21",
      "estimated_cost": 1000,
      "description": "remove 2 non bearing shelf units enlarge 2 doorways",
      "source": "sf-building-permits"
    }
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      "name": "SF Enterprise Addressing System via DataSF",
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      "retrieved": "2026-07-28"
    },
    {
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      "name": "SF Office of the Assessor-Recorder via DataSF (2025 secured roll)",
      "query": "https://data.sfgov.org/resource/wv5m-vpq2.json?parcel_number=3583061&$order=closed_roll_year%20DESC&$limit=1",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-28"
    },
    {
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      "query": "https://data.sfgov.org/resource/i98e-djp9.json?block=3583&lot=061",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-28"
    },
    {
      "id": "sf-planning",
      "name": "SF Planning Department — Historic Resource Status by Parcel via DataSF",
      "query": "https://data.sfgov.org/resource/3tsw-4idn.json?apn=3583061",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-28"
    },
    {
      "id": "sf-historic-districts",
      "name": "SF Planning Department — Historic Districts via DataSF",
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    },
    {
      "id": "eureka-valley-context-statement",
      "name": "Elaine B. Stiles, Eureka Valley Historic Context Statement, prepared for the Eureka Valley Neighborhood Association, adopted by the Historic Preservation Commission December 20, 2017",
      "query": "http://default.sfplanning.org/Preservation/EurekaValleyHCS/hp_eureka_valley_hcs_HCS_FINAL-122017.pdf",
      "listing": "https://sfplanning.org/project/sf-histories-historic-context-statements#completed",
      "label": "Eureka Valley Historic Context Statement, adopted 2017",
      "retrieved": "2026-08-14"
    },
    {
      "id": "sexual-identity-context-statement",
      "name": "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",
      "query": "https://sfplanning.s3.amazonaws.com/archives/documents/6691-Sexual%20Identity%201933-1979.pdf",
      "listing": "https://sfplanning.org/project/sf-histories-historic-context-statements#completed",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-01"
    },
    {
      "id": "article-10-lm227",
      "name": "San Francisco Planning, Article 10 landmark designation: Landmark No. 227, Castro Camera and Harvey Milk Residence (ordinance, Planning Commission resolution and case report)",
      "query": "https://sfplanninggis.org/docs/landmarks_and_districts/LM227.pdf",
      "label": "SF Planning, landmark designation",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-27"
    },
    {
      "id": "sf-planning-commission-minutes-2000-02-24",
      "name": "San Francisco City Planning Commission, minutes of the meeting of 24 February 2000",
      "label": "San Francisco City Planning Commission minutes, San Francisco Public Library (Internet Archive)",
      "query": "https://archive.org/details/47minutesofsanfran2000san/page/n132/mode/1up",
      "retrieved": "2026-11-02"
    }
  ],
  "historic_survey": {
    "survey": "Eureka Valley Historic Context Statement (2017)",
    "source": "eureka-valley-context-statement",
    "style": "Italianate and Stick",
    "note": "Listed among the five designated San Francisco Landmarks in the study area, as Landmark #227, and illustrated as an Italianate and Stick single-family residence over commercial space. The statement is reconnaissance-level and says inclusion in it is not a judgement on a building's worthiness for preservation."
  },
  "building": {
    "name": "Harvey Milk Residence and Castro Camera",
    "builder": "Fernando Nelson"
  },
  "historical_record": [
    {
      "date": "1893–1894",
      "kind": "construction",
      "description": "Built by Fernando Nelson, one of the most prolific Victorian builders of Eureka and Noe Valleys, as a shop with a flat above, early in Eureka Valley's growth; until 1943 the storefront held hardware stores and tradesmen — a plumber, a carpenter, a tinsmith and sheet-metal workers.",
      "source": "article-10-lm227"
    },
    {
      "date": "1947–1948",
      "kind": "alteration",
      "description": "The ground-floor storefront was remodelled in materials evoking the International Style — the front it still had in Harvey Milk's years.",
      "source": "article-10-lm227"
    },
    {
      "date": "1973",
      "kind": "business",
      "description": "Harvey Milk opened a small camera shop at 573 Castro Street and lived above it at 575. He ran for the Board of Supervisors that year, lost, and was elected in 1977 as the first openly gay person to win public office in California.",
      "source": "eureka-valley-context-statement"
    },
    {
      "date": "1973-03-03",
      "kind": "opening",
      "description": "Harvey Milk and his partner Scott Smith, living next door at 577 Castro, opened Castro Camera with savings from Milk's work as a stockbroker and in the theatre. The shop was the headquarters of all four of his campaigns for office and the scene of his victory party on the night he was elected supervisor in November 1977.",
      "source": "article-10-lm227"
    },
    {
      "date": "1978-04-01",
      "kind": "event",
      "description": "Facing a near threefold rent increase at the end of his five-year lease, Milk moved Castro Camera to 2362 Market Street.",
      "source": "article-10-lm227"
    },
    {
      "date": "1996-05",
      "kind": "installation",
      "description": "A bronze plaque to Harvey Milk was set in the sidewalk in front of the building.",
      "source": "article-10-lm227"
    },
    {
      "date": "2000",
      "kind": "designation",
      "description": "Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 227, Castro Camera and Harvey Milk Residence.",
      "source": "article-10-lm227"
    },
    {
      "date": "2000-02-24",
      "kind": "designation",
      "description": "The City Planning Commission approved landmark designation of the Castro Camera Building, 6-0.",
      "source": "sf-planning-commission-minutes-2000-02-24"
    },
    {
      "date": "2000-02-24",
      "kind": "occupancy",
      "description": "A two-story mixed-use retail/residential building stood on the site.",
      "source": "sf-planning-commission-minutes-2000-02-24"
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "Two of the city's context statements date the opening of Castro Camera differently — one to 1971, the other to 1973.",
    "The building is dated 1893–1894 in its landmark designation; the assessor's roll gives 1900."
  ],
  "notable_residents": [
    {
      "name": "Harvey Milk",
      "period": "1975–1978",
      "detail": "Harvey Milk, gay rights leader and San Francisco supervisor, lived in the upper flat.",
      "source": "article-10-lm227"
    }
  ],
  "city_landmark": {
    "name": "Castro Camera and Harvey Milk Residence",
    "number": 227,
    "source": "article-10-lm227"
  }
}