122 Lyon Street
Haight Ashbury · San Francisco, CA 94117
Five apartments over three storeys on the block of Lyon facing the Panhandle. A published guide to notable residences places Janis Joplin here from June 1967 to April 1968 and says the dates come from her driver's licence — the most specific of the three competing Joplin addresses it lists.
Permit history
Three permits, 2000–2023: two roofs and a stair rail. Nothing is recorded before 2000.
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Jun 2023
Reroofing.
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Jan 2003
Raise the outer top rail on the back stairs to 36 inches above the treads.
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Oct 2000
Reroofing. No cost recorded.
Three addresses, one tenancy
The guide that places Joplin here also lists 112 Lyon Street, five doors down, as an alternative for the same period, and 635 Ashbury Street as a further Joplin address. Only the claim on this page carries a stated basis — the driver's licence — and none of the three has been traced here to a primary record. The pages do not adjudicate between them.
Not yet documented: the architect, builder and original permit; when the building was divided into five apartments; and any primary record behind the Joplin dates beyond the guide's account of her driver's licence. Know any of it? Tell us — just describe it in plain words.