56 Mars Street
Corbett Heights · San Francisco, CA 94114
Standing in photographs of Mars Street from 1895, 1906 and 1912. Planning has since assessed the building and concluded it is not a historical resource.
Documented history
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c. 1895
Standing in a photograph of Mars Street taken from Kite Hill.
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April 1906
Visible above the earthquake refugee camp at Corbett and Mars.
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1912
Photographed at close range with its neighbours at 52 and 64 Mars, already showing alteration.
Permit history
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May 2022
Horizontal addition of 670 sq ft above 56 and 56A Mars Street.
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Jul 2010
Rock intrusions removed from the lower level; new foundations and concrete floor slabs.
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Jan 2010
56A Mars Street assigned as the legal address of the rear unit.
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Jan 2010
Two bathrooms and the kitchen remodelled.
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Dec 2009
Three worn stair treads replaced.
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Dec 1990
Illegal kitchen removed and a new wall built to close the room.
Not yet documented: the builder and first owner, and whether the 2022 addition was built. The assessor's 1900 date is later than the photograph of about 1895 in which the house already appears. Know any of it? Tell us — just describe it in plain words.