Doolan-Larson Building

1. 1901

   The Baird estate sold this 32.5-by-100-foot corner lot, with other Haight Street parcels, to Richard P. Doolan, who built on it two years later.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
2. 1903

   Built as a two-storey Colonial Revival house at the northwest corner of Haight and Ashbury, its first floor about six feet above the street, by the contractor Charles J. U. Koenig.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
3. 1907–1967

   The shop at 1508 Haight was a barbershop until 1967, from 1936 as the Haight Family Barber Shop.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
4. 1907

   The house was raised six more feet and moved 22 inches east to the lot line so that a row of shops could go in beneath it, and a separate commercial building went up on the western part of the lot — a rare mixed-use Colonial Revival in the city. The first shop on the corner was the Gold Bar saloon, which closed with Prohibition.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
5. 1910

   Built by Charles J. U. Koenig.

6. 1912

   The residence was turned into the Lansdorff Apartments.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
7. 1918

   The upper floors became the Evelyn Apartments, three units; the name survives in gold letters (restored) in the entry transom.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
8. 1930–1975

   Jimmy's Shoe Shine Parlor worked from the 7½-foot-wide shop at 1504 Haight until 1975.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
9. 1937–1988

   Holcombe Jewelers occupied the corner shop at 1500 Haight until 1988.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
10. 1953

    By 1953 the residence had been divided into eight living units, most likely during the Second World War housing shortage; it was a rooming house from the 1930s to the 1960s.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
11. 1965

    The Mnasidika clothing boutique traded in this storefront from 1965 to 1968; reportedly the first hip clothing store in the neighbourhood and instrumental in the Haight-Ashbury's development as a hippie enclave.

    Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson, Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted by the Historic Preservation Commission November 18, 2015
12. 1965

    The Doolan-Larson Building at the corner of Haight and Ashbury, San Francisco Landmark No. 253 as the Richard P. Doolan / Norman T. Larson Residence and Storefronts, and one of the buildings associated with the counterculture era.

    Donna Graves for San Francisco Heritage, Citywide Historic Context Statement for Counterculture (1965–1975), San Francisco Planning Department, adopted 17 July 2024
13. 1965

    Mnasidika, reputedly the first "hip" clothing boutique in the Haight and an important LGBTQ-owned business, opened in this storefront; it stayed until 1968.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
14. April 1965

    Mnasidika's proprietor was Peggy Caserta, and Janis Joplin was among its customers; the shop's name was a coded lesbian reference to Les Chansons de Bilitis. Holcombe Jewelers and Jimmy's Shoe Shine Parlor, long-standing shops on the corner, outlasted the drug years that followed.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
15. 1968

    From 1968 the residence has legally been a single dwelling unit.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
16. 1973

    The property passed out of the Doolan family.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
17. 1974–1975

    After standing empty in the early 1970s, the three shops at 1508-1512 Haight were merged behind a new front into one store, the Silmi Market, numbered 1510.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
18. 1984

    The western building was restored to its original three shops, using a 1952 Assessor's photograph as a model, with brass corner posts copied from one surviving original.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
19. 1985

    The storefronts were rehabilitated, and a decorative iron gate was installed at the 557 Ashbury residential entrance.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
20. Sep 2002

    Permit 200209106083 $$$ $2,000

    Add partition wall withdoor toexisting retail store.

21. 2003

    The two flats were physically rejoined into a single dwelling and the pocket doors between foyer and formal parlor were restored.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
22. July 11, 2006

    Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 253, the Richard P. Doolan/Norman T. Larson Residence and Storefronts.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
23. May 11, 2011

    Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with exceptional significance, for its direct association with the hippie movement at the corner that gives the neighbourhood its name, and as a rare Colonial Revival house over shops.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
24. Jul 2011

    Permit 201107220901 $$$ $1

    To renew permit application 200209106083 for final inspection all work has been completed.

25. Mar 2018

    Permit 201803012578 $$$ $250

    Installation of historic landmark sign.

26. May 2019

    Permit 201905070007 $$$ $80,700

    Tear off existing pitched roof layers to expose sheathing. install new gaf shingles and new felt underlayment. replace existing roofing material.

27. Jul 2019

    Permit 201907035069 $$$ $5,000

    Voluntary structural repairs in attic.

28. Jul 2019

    Permit 201907166074 $$$ $25,000

    Revision to entrance to comply with accessible business entrance program per ord 51-16 modify entry landing to 10% max slop per chbc provide power door operator per information da-04.

29. Nov 2023

    Permit 202311090524 $$$ $2,500

    To comply with accessible business entrance program per ordinance 51-16. install new threshold on entry vestibule. abe# 202311099036.

30. Nov 2023

    Permit 202311090525 $$$ $26,000

    To comply with accessible business entrance program per ordinance 51-16. modify ramp & storefront. add door operator. abe# 202311099035.

31. Nov 2023

    Permit 202311090523 $$$ $5,600

    To comply with accessible business entrance program per ordinance 51-16. install power door operator. & provide new thershold. abe# 202311099037.

32. Nov 2023

    Permit 202311090521 $$$ $16,000

    To comply with accessible business entrance program per ordinance 51-16. install power door operator. abe# 202311099038.

33. September 17, 2026

    Exclusive: Building at one of S.F.’s most historic intersections is getting a transformation — San Francisco Chronicle

3 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 1 expired permit is not shown. The assessor's roll gives 1910; the city's statement on Progressive Era and early revival styles gives 1903.