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District 5 · Block 1077, Lot 027 · ZIP 94115

1600 Divisadero Street

9-unit building · Japantown

  • 8 stories
  • 346,570 ft2
  • 113,437.5 ft2 lot area
  • 838 rooms
  • 53 bathrooms
  • Zoned NC-3
  • Historic resource
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  1. 1912

    Mount Zion Hospital put up its building at the corner of Post and Scott Streets, from which by 1977 the State had ordered all direct patient services removed.

    San Francisco City Planning Commission minutes, San Francisco Public Library (Internet Archive)
  2. February 1914

    The T-shaped neoclassical building on the north-west corner of Post and Scott Streets, on the Mount Zion hospital campus, opened as a hospital, designed by J. E. Kraftt & Sons Architects and clad in light brick, with arched recessed portals flanked by stucco pilasters. A morgue was added shortly after it opened.

    San Francisco Department of City Planning, University of California San Francisco Long Range Development Plan Amendment #2, Hospital Replacement: Draft Environmental Impact Report, 2005.
  3. 1928

    A fifth floor was added to the Hellman Building on the Mount Zion campus.

    San Francisco Department of City Planning, University of California San Francisco Long Range Development Plan Amendment #2, Hospital Replacement: Draft Environmental Impact Report, 2005.
  4. 1940

    Psychiatric offices for Mt. Zion Hospital, designed by architect Michael Goodman.

    Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
  5. 1948

    Assessor’s “built” date.

  6. 1948

    The Mount Zion hospital complex of 1948, designed under the influence of the International Style.

    Modern Architecture and Landscape Design Context Statement, adopted 2011
  7. 1952

    The rooftop garden of the Hellman Building was enclosed.

    San Francisco Department of City Planning, University of California San Francisco Long Range Development Plan Amendment #2, Hospital Replacement: Draft Environmental Impact Report, 2005.
  8. 1959

    Mount Zion Hospital's building on the northeast corner of Divisadero and Post went up as five storeys on foundations designed for fourteen; a sixth was added later.

    San Francisco City Planning Commission minutes, San Francisco Public Library (Internet Archive)
  9. May 12, 1977

    Mount Zion Hospital had 460 beds and wide outpatient services, held property in five neighbouring blocks, and had a State certificate of need of 4 January 1977 for eight renovation projects; its institutional master plan was heard this day.

    San Francisco City Planning Commission minutes, San Francisco Public Library (Internet Archive)
  10. August 11, 1977

    The City Planning Commission approved a seventh floor of two 63-bed nursing units on Mount Zion Hospital's six-storey building at Divisadero and Post, and a one-storey-over-basement services and entrance building in its courtyard, 5 to 1 (Resolution 7789), and the addition's excess bulk 4 to 2 (Resolution 7790).

    San Francisco City Planning Commission minutes, San Francisco Public Library (Internet Archive)
  11. May 1981
    Permit 8104133 $$$ $75,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  12. Jul 1981
    Permit 8106585 $$$ $163,400

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  13. Oct 1981
    Permit 8108554 $$$ $35,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  14. Nov 1981
    Permit 8109680 $$$ $15,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  15. Dec 1981
    Permit 8110261 $$$ $11,177

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  16. Dec 1981
    Permit 8110737 $$$ $65,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  17. Mar 1982
    Permit 8201947 $$$ $18,238

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  18. Mar 1982
    Permit 8202175 $$$ $1,250,000

    Building use: y.

  19. Apr 1982
    Permit 8203097 $$$ $100,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  20. May 1982
    Permit 8203565 $$$ $748,000

    Building use: hospital.

  21. Jun 1982
    Permit 8204809 $$$ $30,000

    New fuel supply.

  22. Jun 1982
    Permit 8205002 $$$ $35,000

    Building use: hospital.

  23. Oct 1982
    Permit 8208177 $$$ $750,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  24. Apr 1983
    Permit 8303572 $$$ $11,221

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  25. Sep 1984
    Permit 8409575 $$$ $45,000

    Enlarge exist. lab. by expansion into adja. unused spaces.

  26. Jul 1986
    Permit 8608985 $$$ $22,000

    Exterior wall structural repairs.

  27. Jan 1987
    Withdrawn Permit 8700357 $$$ $30,000

    Remodel reception area on 2nd floor, partition, demolition.

  28. Jul 1987
    Permit 8711258 $$$ $80,000

    Demolition of non-load bearing partition walls, cabinetry.

  29. Sep 1990
    Permit 9018842 $$$ $30,000

    Construct truck loading sound barrier.

  30. Dec 2012

    Streetspace.

  31. Jul 2024
    Permit 202407166549 $$$ $30,669

    Building a: replace the detection and controls for the existing automatic releasing halon 1301 fire extinguishing system for electric, room a017 located on the lower level. no ref permit application.

DBI holds 38 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 38. 13 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 3 expired or cancelled permits are not shown. The assessor's roll gives 1948; this address is recorded as built 1940. The building at Post and Scott Streets went up in 1912 by one 1977 account; it opened as a hospital in February 1914.

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