2555 Divisadero Street

1. 1939

   Designed by Paul Revere Williams and featured in Western architectural press in June 1940 — one of only two of his San Francisco buildings known to survive.

   African American Citywide Historic Context Statement, adopted 2024
2. 1940

   Built.

3. Oct 1997

   Permit 9721168 $$$ $250,000

   Vertical addition.

4. Aug 1998

   Permit 9816282 $$$ $1,000

   Remove contents out of existing kchn & open up various wall.

5. Jan 1999

   Permit 9901610 $$$ $14,500

   Reroofing.

6. Sep 2010

   Permit 201009150963 $$$ $229,500

   Vertical addition-add 5'11" to building height. includes new room, closet & bath. 40 sq ft. horizontal addition to current 3rd floor stairway. new deck addition @ current roof. structural/seismic work as req. new fire sprinklers at vertical addition.

7. Jul 2014

   Issued Permit 201407080641 $$$ $45,000

   Add elevator & mid-section roof-top deck.

8. May 2015

   Issued Permit 201505136251 $$$ $3,500

   Provide pre-fabricated metal stair for roof access - for repair and maintenance (in closet) per plan.

9. Mar 2016

   Issued Permit 201603172324 $$$ $4,000

   Eliminate sink/toilet on 3rd fl, substitute 42" glass guard with 8'6" glass windscreen in rec room and elimiante nanawall. relocate pre-fab stair from nw corner to ne corner ref bpa 201505136251. alterations per plan, as-built structural on roof, 4th, & 3rd fl in ref bpa 201407080641s1.

10. Jul 2016

    Permit 201607293784 $$$ $8,000

    As-built plans revision for bpa 201009150963, bpa 201407080641, bpa 201505136251, and 201603172324 within existing envelope per plan. no exterior changes.

11. Jul 2016

    Permit 201607293781 $$$ $8,400

    Scope of work: ground floor alteration only - reolocate interior wall inside existing family room per plan.

12. Oct 2016

    Permit 201610130135 $$$ $5,000

    Elevator shaft revision under bpa #201607293784 per plan.

13. Nov 2016

    Issued Permit 201611183090 $$$ $3,000

    Install 8 sprinklers per nfpa 13-r, underground per nfpa#24. t.i. 201607293784.

14. Feb 2017

    Permit 201702109141 $$$ $1

    As built drawings to consolidate 201607293781 & 201610130135 and 201607293784 into one permit per plans.

15. Mar 2017

    Issued Permit 201703091137 $$$ $70,000

    To renew bpa # 201407080641, 201009150963, 201505136251, 201603172324 to complete work and obtain a final inspection.

16. Jun 2017

    Permit 201706149352 $$$ $4,378

    Install fire sprinkler monitoring supervisory system. all work in garage area. ref 2016-0729-3784 and 2016-1118-3090.

DBI holds 35 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 35. 4 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 10 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.