Daphne Funeral Home
1–45 Church Street · Hayes Valley
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1953
Landscape design for the Daphne Funeral Home by landscape architect Geraldine Knight Scott.
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1954
Daphne's San Francisco Funeral Home, designed by the Los Angeles firm Jones & Emmons. Since demolished.
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1954
Daphne's San Francisco Funeral Home, 1954, by Jones & Emmons with a landscape by Thomas D. Church — one of the finest non-residential Second Bay Tradition buildings in the city, replaced by a housing complex in the 1990s.
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1954
The Daphne Funeral Home, since demolished, was designed and built between 1950 and 1954: a two-storey cantilevered mortuary of simple geometric volumes on a roughly cruciform plan, linked by a canopy to a single-storey chapel whose roof was made of planes set at different heights under broad overhangs, with ramps for circulation and fixed, ribbon and plate glass throughout. The commission first went to Frank Lloyd Wright; his contract was ended and the work passed to A. Quincy Jones, the only mortuary Jones built. Geraldine Knight Scott laid out the grounds with native and exotic planting and Japanese-influenced features — small stone shrines, private garden spaces, a rock garden — keeping the rock outcrop at the southern edge.
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1967
A fire destroyed more than half the administration building of the funeral home that then stood here, taking most of the windows and the neon sign. Owen Jones drew the rebuilding, overseen by A. Quincy Jones: the smooth redwood siding gave way to redwood plywood battened with rough-sawn two-by-twos, the ribbon windows on the south side went, the neon was never replaced, redwood walls inside became plasterboard, damaged terrazzo was patched with concrete and the roof overhang was cut back. Plans for a second chapel and a greenhouse were abandoned.
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Nov 1981
Additions alterations or repairs.
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Dec 1985
Grading & paving of existing dirt lot.
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Dec 1999
Erect a one story podium building.
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Jul 2000
To erect a 4-story 64 unit apartment/retail building.
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Jul 2000
Erect a three story thirty unit residential building/church/childcare.
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Aug 2000
Install temp. soil nail wall/ shoring.
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Mar 2001
Install new fire sprinkler heads with new system. include new fire services.-underground.
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Oct 2001
New fire alarm system.
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2002
Assessor’s “built” date.
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Mar 2002
T/1 for cchild care with new walls, plumbing, electrical., mechanical and finishes.
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Apr 2011
Repair in kind approx. 220 sq ft. of stucco at 2 locations to verify waterproofing. install scaffold to facilitate access. scaffold to include pedestrian caopy. no structural work, visable from street, in kind only.
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Jun 2012
Major street encroachment for a new infant play yard, sitting arear, trellised entry, stroller parking at existing ground floor child care center.
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Dec 2014
Major street encroachment for a new infant play yard, sitting area, trellised entry and stroller parking at exsiting ground floor child care center. maher n/a.
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Oct 2016
#317: replace one in kind living room window. #217: replace one bedroom window from single hung to slider clear opening w: 21 3/16" h: 56" all finishes to be in kind.
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Feb 2017
Replace all windows (except 1 in two units in one unit), r&r stucco, waterproof all decks. all windows and sliders are vinyl in kind. like for like.
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Jun 2018
To comply with nov # 201864931, item 5, line walls and back side of door with 26 ga galvanized sheet metal in 4 ea garbage rooms (1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th floor garbage rooms) n/a maher.
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Jun 2018
Ref permit application 201702240118; added scope of work to courtyards, sliding glass door replacements, deck coating, exterior, siding stucco, interior cosmetic repairs.
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Oct 2018
Mep's for permit application 201806222691.
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Nov 2018
Upgrade the fire alarm system per city ord, add low frequency sounders for all rms. smoke detectors in all communication units. old booster power suppliers will be removed & replaced with new like-kind. existing notication appliances to be removed & replaced with like kind appliances.**maher n/a**.
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Dec 2018
Addition of scope to permit #201806222691. plywood replacement from p.t to structural plywood. all other structural work to be in-kind. new struct work per sheets s-1.01 thru s-4.10. n/a for maher.
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Feb 2019
Priority plan review. add scope to permit #201806222691. accessibility unit upgrades.
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Jan 2020
Site improvement to main entry. site improvements include re-design of existing steps, ramp, pavement.
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Mar 2020
Remove existing upper vehicle gate. furnish & install new upper vehicle gate. remove existing lower vehicle gate. furnish and install 2 swing gates & operators. to comply with complaint 201864931 items 4 & 8.
DBI holds 54 permits for this parcel, most of them tenant improvements on individual floors. The timeline shows the 24 largest by stated cost, plus the earliest on file; the DBI query in the sources below returns all 54. 8 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 3 expired or cancelled permits are not shown. A citywide context statement records work at this address dated 1954; the assessor's roll dates the structure on this parcel to 2002. Whether the building described still stands here is unsettled. The landscape here is credited to Thomas D. Church by the city's Modern architecture statement and to Geraldine Knight Scott by the citywide collection of professional biographies.
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