380–390 Sanchez Street

1. 1893

   Built by William Linden, the Irish-born contractor who built houses and commercial buildings across the city between about 1892 and 1912 in styles from plain vernacular to elaborate Queen Anne, and who worked repeatedly for the San Francisco Board of Education.

   Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
2. 1900

   Built.

3. 1971

   Modern Times Bookstore opened here in 1971 as a movement bookstore before moving to the Mission in 1981.

   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
4. Dec 1991

   Permit 9122882 $$$ $6,800

   Reroofing.

5. Sep 2006

   Permit 200609202870 $$$ $45,000

   Repair fire damage 5/8 type sheet rock for wall 1800 sqfeet on 2nd floor. include new partition lighting, electrical, replace window wood 5 windows. sheetrock replacement not to exceed two -third of entire building.

6. May 2024

   Permit 202405101913 $$$ $7,000

   Reroofing.

3 nominal $1 street-space permits and 1 expired permit are omitted. This address is recorded as built 1893; the assessor's roll gives 1900, the year it files most of the city's nineteenth-century buildings under.