333 Baker Street
158-unit apartment building
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1906
The Southern Pacific Company bought the whole block, between Fell, Baker, Hayes and Lyon Streets, for a new hospital for its employees, in what was reported at the time as one of the largest land deals to follow that year's earthquake and fire. Its predecessor, opened in 1898 at Fourteenth and Mission Streets, had burned.
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1908
Built by Healy and Tibbitts Construction Company.
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1908
The first building campaign raised the central five-bay block, the east hyphen and wing, and half the west hyphen: painted brick with stucco-covered concrete trim over a rusticated two-storey base, facing the Panhandle across Fell Street behind four colossal Corinthian columns and a four-tiered stair.
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1908
A reinforced concrete footbridge was carried from the second floor across the yard to the nurses' annex, on piers high enough for cars to pass beneath.
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March 12, 1908
Healy-Tibbitts construction company contracted for foundations, floors, columns and roof slabs on the Southern Pacific hospital for the Southern Pacific company.
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1910
The west wing and the rest of the west hyphen were built, finishing the hospital to its original plan — a double back-to-back E around an east–west circulation spine.
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March 4, 1910
John G. Sutton & Co. contracted for the heating, ventilating, plumbing, sewerage, water supply and wiring of the Southern Pacific Company hospital's west wing.
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1930
Harkness Wing
A five-storey reinforced concrete wing with a penthouse went up along Baker Street, designed by Coffey & Rist to match the older elevations but plainer, with a shallow two-storey Ionic porch. Edward S. Harkness, a director of the railroad, paid for it.
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1930
Three tiers of sun porches on the south face of the hyphens, added over the preceding fifteen years in pressed ornamental metal with cast iron posts and railings, were glazed in with Lustraglass, sold for letting ultraviolet light through to convalescents. None of that glazing survives.
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1953
The decaying pediments over the third-storey windows were taken off.
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1963
The hospital opened to the general public, after falling railroad employment cut the dues that had paid for it and its parent reorganised into a prepaid health plan and a charitable trust.
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1968
Renamed Harkness Community Hospital and Medical Center, for the director whose gift had paid for the 1930 wing and to signal that it was no longer only for railroad employees. A seven-year expansion meant to spread over four blocks began the same year.
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1974
The hospital closed, apparently in bankruptcy, and the expansion planned six years earlier was never built — which is why the complex survives where nearly every comparable San Francisco hospital of its age was replaced.
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December 9, 1976
The former Harkness Hospital buildings, across Fell Street from the Panhandle, stood vacant on a full block; the U.S. Postal Service proposed to demolish them for a 25-foot postal building with 230 parking spaces.
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1983
Converted to senior housing over 1982 and 1983: partitions out and apartments in, the stripped sun porches reglazed and their ironwork repaired, aluminium sashes replaced to match the historic ones, and the monumental Fell Street stair closed off with reused fencing so that the entrance moved round to the Baker Street portico.
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1989
Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 192, Southern Pacific Company Hospital Complex.
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Apr 1989
Erect a two story private parking garage.
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May 5, 1989
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the four buildings along Hayes Street as the Southern Pacific Company Hospital Historic District: the flagship of the first hospital system in the world built by a company for its own employees, and an intact piece of early twentieth-century institutional architecture.
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Jun 1992
Install cellular phone eqmt rm. mount antenna on penthouse.
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Aug 2011
Project consists of verizon wireless outdoor equipment cabinets mounted on raised platform on concrete slab at basement level within chain link fance enclosure. install 6 panel antennas on penthouse behind screens. install stand-by generator mounted on concrete slab @ grade within. cmu enclosure.
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Aug 2012
Adding a new 6601 rbs main unit to an existing 19" rack & three new remote radio units. no other scope of work.
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Feb 2013
Install roof mounted solar hot water system.
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Mar 2013
Reroofing.
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Sep 2013
Replace 3 verizon panel antenna with new panel antennas. add 3 rrh units, 1 dypleyer &1 cable.
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Oct 2014
Fire alarm voluntary panel replacement for mercy housing apartment building, additions are new fire alarm panel, 1 horn strobe power supply, 28 smoke detectors, 12 input modules and 3 relay modules.
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Nov 2014
Fire alarm work for the upgrade to the elevator machine rooms on the basement and roof levels. additions are 2 smoke detectors, 6 heat detectors, 8 modules. referenced f/a panel replacement 2014.1007.8235.
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Jun 2015
Verizon wireless replace 6 antennas (panel), 3 remote radio units, replace 3 remote radio units, add 2 surge protectors, 2 hybrid cables, 3 diplexers at equip area, remove ret cable, remove unused coax cable.
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Sep 2015
At&t modification to existing telecom facility: install (3) new rrus-11 with a2, install (3)rrus-32, new dus-41 & xmu inside 19" rack, install blinders between sector b antennas and reducing standoff on all antenna mounts, r/r (9) existing antennas with (9)new antennas, remove all unused coax.
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Oct 2015
Reroofing.
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Nov 2016
One unit - repair approx 320 ft. drywall using type x 5/8. install insulation, toilet, vanity. one unit - repair approx. 160 sq ft. drywall using tuype x 5/8. install insulation, toilet, vanity. one unit - repair approx 160 sq ft. drywall using type x 5/8.
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May 2017
Generator & concrete pad replacement. no new electrical loads.
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Dec 2017
Swap (3) rrvs, install (3) rrus, install (1) idl cable & install (2) xmu units & (2) dus-41 inside existing 19" rack.
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Oct 2018
Att modification. remove and replace 7 existing antennas with 7 new. remove and replace 3 existing rru's with 3, install 4 new rru's, install other small equip, remove unused equip, install new batteries.
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Apr 2021
Concrete brick repairs at basement level. no change in existing lateral system. 100% affordable housing. (structural only).
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Nov 2021
Verizon wireless modification. replace 6 antennas, replace 6 rrus, rerplace 3 ovps, remove 3 diplexters, install 3 combiners. at equip: remove 12 rrus, replace 3 ovps.
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Jul 2022
Att modification unmanned telecom facility rr 6 panel antennas behind e frp screen, remove 4 rrus, new 2 rrus, 2 dc 9 box, 2 awg power trunks, 1 1/4"fiber trunk, rf safety sign, barricades, striping roof, r/r 20 batteries in e racks, 1 dc 12 rm, 1 6648 and 1 6630 in e racks.
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Sep 2023
Reroofing.
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Dec 2024
Verizon project: install (4) new antennas and (4) new wall mounts on an existing verizon facility.
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Jun 2025
Remove 2 water boilers, reconfigure solar and boiler storage, provide new hot water heat pump on roof within associated electrical, plumbing and mechanical work.
DBI holds 39 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 39. 7 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 2 cancelled permits are not shown.
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