720 Steiner Street
Alamo Square · Hayes Valley · San Francisco, CA 94117
One of the Painted Ladies facing Alamo Square — the row photographed as Postcard Row, or the Seven Sisters — built around 1900. SF Planning records it under the name Postcard Row (part). A published guide to notable residences records Alice Walker as living here until 1996.
Permit history
Only three permits are on file. The building has no substantial recorded alteration history — fitting for a house whose street-facing appearance is the point of its protection.
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Sep 2002
Renewal of the 2001 permit for final sign-off.
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Oct 2001
Remodel a bathroom and install a skylight at the stairs, kept 3.5 feet off the property line.
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Aug 1981
The oldest record on file, created when paper job cards were converted. No scope was carried over.
Not yet documented: the architect and builder, the original permit, which of the seven houses in the row this is by position, and any primary-source confirmation of the Walker residency and its end in 1996. Know any of it? Tell us — just describe it in plain words.