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District 8 · Block 2654, Lot 034 · ZIP 94114

1–11 Uranus Terrace

4-unit building with a ground-floor store · Eureka Valley

  • 2 stories
  • Zoned RH-2
  • Historic status: unevaluated
37.7617, −122.4453 Street View appears here once a Google Maps embed key is configured.
3,878 sq ftBuilding area
2,374 sq ftLot area
15Rooms · 5 bed, 6 bath
  1. September 2, 1889

    The corner lot, advertised at $800 since March, was bought by a builder listed as an architect in 1891 and as a contractor at the corner in 1892, who opened the grocery two years later.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "June Neighborhood News" (31 May 2024)
  2. November 17, 1894

    A contractor drilling a tunnel for the Spring Valley water main turned up what was taken for gold at the corner, and the grocery did a brisk trade in the crowd that followed.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "June Neighborhood News" (31 May 2024)
  3. 1895

    A grocery took the corner store on the 17th Street front and was still trading there 130 years later.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "February Neighborhood News", Vol. VII, No. 2 (1 February 2025)
  4. 1895

    A meeting hall opened over the corner grocery, the second in the district after the one that burned at Corbett and Hattie.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "June Neighborhood News", Vol. VIII, No. 6 (1 June 2026)
  5. November 23, 1895

    Spring Valley water turned on at the building.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "June Neighborhood News" (31 May 2024)
  6. 1900

    Built.

  7. 1923

    One family owned the building and ran the store from 1923 until 1994, and introduced self-service groceries here as early as the 1920s.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "June Neighborhood News" (31 May 2024)
  8. December 7, 1941

    Customers who walked round for a Sunday paper heard the news of Pearl Harbor from the grocer and his wife.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "June Neighborhood News" (31 May 2024)
  9. March 30, 1976

    Surveyed by the city's Planning Department, when it still had its original windows, doors and unmodernised shopfront door; two large windows had been let into the Uranus Street side after a car struck the building.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "June Neighborhood News" (31 May 2024)
  10. June 5, 1990

    Raisa Gorbachev broke off a tour of the city to visit the grocery and asked the price of a bottle of Stolichnaya and a loaf of sourdough; the stop was reported around the world.

    Corbett Heights Neighbors, "June Neighborhood News" (31 May 2024)
  11. Aug 2011
    Permit 201108021560 $$$ $7,000

    Repair and replace corner post and header beams above damaged by car accident. to address the nov 201147509 dated 6-21-11.

  12. Mar 2013
    Permit 201303283340 $$$ $25,000

    Replace "failing" partial foundation & add foundation at basement level, add shear walls.

2 nominal $1 street-space permits and 1 cancelled permit are omitted. The corner grocery's opening is dated 1894 in one account, on the strength of the 1894 directory listing, and 1895 in another. The same account puts the lot at the south-east corner of 17th and Uranus and the builder's 1892 work at the south-west.

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