553–559 14th Street

4-unit apartment building

2 stories
Zoned RM-2
Historic status: historic resource

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3,390 sq ftBuilding area

1,873 sq ftLot area

13Rooms · 4 baths

1911

Built.
Nov 2004

Permit 200411058677 $$$ $1,000

Bolt bldng to foundation, 5/8 ai thread, 2 ft apart, 10-12 non depth.
Dec 2015

Permit 201512013792 $$$ $2,000

Repair to back stair landing, repair in-kind, less than 50%.
May 2020

Permit 202005267798 $$$ $20,000

559 14th st: replacement of kitchen cabinets. all work in-kind.
Mar 2025

Permit 202503112059 $$$ $55,000

Remodel kitchen in kind. no moving walls or layout. approx 150 sq ft. new kitchen, knob & tube to be removed. rewired with replacement of conduits or romex.
May 2025

Permit 202505297444 $$$ $25,748

Reroofing. remove old roof. install 3 layers of fiberglass with tar and gravel. new flashings. (hot work).

1 nominal $1 street-space permit and 2 expired permits are omitted.

Land $48,252 Improvements $69,516

Total assessed $117,768

At a glance

ConstructionWood frame

Street numbers553, 555, 557, 559

Inner Mission North Context Statement, adopted 2004

Contributor to the Ramona Street National Register eligible district (553-559 14th Street). Criterion C: a 1911–1923 middle-class subdivision of 36 properties, almost all built with an integrated ground-floor garage (“auto basement”) — the survey calls this among the earliest known examples of the automobile built into residential design on a national scale, roughly a decade before the practice became common. Integrity is high. Contributor to the Mission Reconstruction District locally significant area (553-559 14th St). Criterion C: the survey's proposed district for the northern Mission's rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake and fire, period of significance May 1906–1913, predominantly Classical Revival, Edwardian and Mission Revival in wood frame construction. Contributor to the Inner Mission Commercial Corridor locally significant area (553-559 14th). Formerly called the 16th Street Commercial Corridor. Criterion C: San Francisco's largest concentration of residential-over-commercial and small-scale commercial buildings, spanning both pre-1906 and post-disaster construction, dated c. 1870s–1931.

Historic district

Ramona Street

Significant 1911–1923

Eligible for the California and National Registers
Not a city landmark district

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