104–108 Ord Street
6-unit apartment building · Corbett Heights
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1885
Completed.
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1900
Built.
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August 1905
Offered for sale at $6,000, when the building was half its present width: three flats of six, six and seven rooms with bath on a lot 25 by 137.6 feet, let for $55 a month. A second notice that September put the cost of the building alone at $7,000.
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December 1, 1906
Two permits for a separate house on the 16-foot strip beside the building came to nothing: this one for a single-family dwelling 16 by 36 feet and 25 feet high, withdrawn the following April, and one of 28 August 1907 for a two-family dwelling 16 by 136 feet and 30 feet high. The strip was absorbed into the building instead.
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1908
The addition was designed and built by N. W. Mohr, who matched the window trim of the 1880s facade; the bay windows on the 17th Street side are of the later design, and the front is not quite symmetrical as a result.
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August 1, 1908
A permit for two flats and a store added to the three-storey frame building, at a stated cost of $3,900, extending 84 feet along the 16-foot side lot to a height of 43 feet, with Lattig Construction Company as builder. The store took the address 100 Ord Street, and the numbers 104, 106 and 108 Ord and 4301-4303-4305 17th Street date from the work.
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1919
Fire-insurance maps show the completed addition, the store, and the building at twice its earlier width, divided into six flats.
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April 20, 1920
A permit turned the grocery store at 100 Ord into a three-room apartment with a bath and put a garage in the basement with its own entrance on Ord Street, at a stated cost of $750. The converted space became 104 Ord.
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December 15, 1921
A revised permit rearranged the storerooms into a two-room apartment and a garage at a stated cost of $1,450, with N. W. Mohr as architect and W. F. Lovell as contractor; 120 yards of earth came out for the garage.
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1931
Remodelled by the contractors A & B Quinn.
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1940
Permits to repair the posts, piers and stairways.
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1975
The house and its interior, and the interior of 4301 17th Street, appear in an episode of The Streets of San Francisco, along with the park across the road.
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1976
Rated A as a historic resource, and scored a 3 on almost every measure of that year's architectural survey, from facade proportions and detailing to its contribution to the streetscape. It also appears in the 1968 Here Today appendix.
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Jun 2004
Repair front stairs less than 50 percent six steps.
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Jul 2006
Do repair work to satisfy violation notice nov#200668501. repair rear deck as existing less than 40% repair framing supports at side of building.
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Apr 2010
Repair water damage in top level @ bedroom. new sheetrock @ interior walls & clg.
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Sep 2013
Overlay roof with new layer of composition shingles.
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Feb 2022
Emergency repair on stairway landing floor and railing. (replace flooring on landing, replace 2 x 2 railing) less than 50% repair.
2 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 1 cancelled permit is not shown. The assessor's roll gives 1900; the 2017 Corbett Heights context statement dates the building to 1885.
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