46–48 Mars Street
Corbett Heights · San Francisco, CA 94114
Among the earliest buildings documented on Mars Street: it stands in a photograph taken from Kite Hill about 1895, and again in the photograph of the 1906 earthquake refugee camp on the slope below.
Documented history
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c. 1895
Standing on the west side of Mars in a photograph taken from Kite Hill, when the corner at 17th Street was still open ground.
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April 1906
Visible above the earthquake refugee camp at Corbett and Mars, in a photograph taken from the direction of Caselli and 18th.
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2005
The rear cottage renumbered from 48A to 46, giving the parcel its present pair of numbers.
Permit history
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Mar 2010
Front building, unit 48: work to comply with physical inspection report CC-5548.
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Feb 2010
Front stairs and railing repaired, less than half replaced.
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May 2003
Interior remodelled within the existing building envelope, with new doors and windows to the rear building.
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Oct 2000
Microfilm record corrected to show the existing rear cottage of one room and one bathroom.
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Dec 1995
Dry rot and termite damage repaired.
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Jul 1992
Front stairs rebuilt to match; dry rot repaired.
Not yet documented: the builder and first owner, and when the rear cottage was put up. The assessor's construction date of 1903 is later than the photograph of about 1895 in which the house already appears; which is right has not been established. Know any of it? Tell us — just describe it in plain words.