737 Buena Vista Avenue West
Haight Ashbury · San Francisco, CA 94117
A nineteen-room house on the west side of Buena Vista Park. SF Planning's historic survey records it under a name — the Floyd Spreckels Mansion — which most parcels in the city do not have, and which is the strongest fact the public record offers about it.
Two Spreckels houses, one city
The same SF Planning dataset that names this the Floyd Spreckels Mansion names 2080 Washington Street the Spreckels Residence. They are different buildings in different neighbourhoods with different protections: 2080 Washington is an Article 10 individual landmark, while this parcel carries Category A status from a survey result alone and no local landmark protection. What links the two names has not been established here.
An empty permit record
The Department of Building Inspection dataset reaches back to the mid-1970s and returns nothing at all for this address — no roofs, no alterations, no street-space filings. Of the addresses documented on this site, only one other has a permit record this empty. That is an absence of records, not evidence that nothing was done.
A roll that stops in 2018
The most recent secured roll carrying this parcel is 2018, seven years behind every other address documented here, and the dataset gives no reason. The 2018 figures below follow a sale recorded in October 2014 and should not be read as current value.
Not yet documented: the architect and builder; the build year, which the assessor gives as 1900 and Planning leaves blank; who Floyd Spreckels was and what ties the name to this house; why the parcel drops off the assessor roll after 2018; and dates for either reported resident. Know any of it? Tell us — just describe it in plain words.