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1401 Bryant Street

Mission · San Francisco, CA 94103

  • Assessor class: vacant lot
  • Zoned M1
  • District 9
  • Historic status: unevaluated
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12,000 sq ftLot area
  1. 1893

    Built by the Market Street Railway as a steam powerhouse, heavy timber framed and brick, generating electricity first from coal and later from oil. The oldest surviving non-residential building in the Showplace Square survey area.

    Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Historic Resource Survey, adopted 2011
  2. 1895

    Enlarged.

    Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Historic Resource Survey, adopted 2011
  3. 1907

    During the 1907 streetcar strike, one of the earliest outbreaks of violence in the district took place outside the powerhouse doors, when armed strikebreakers fired on strikers.

    Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Historic Resource Survey, adopted 2011
  4. Sep 2003

    This 1 story masonry building will be seismically reinforced & plumbing, electrical brought up to code.

    Complete Permit 200309054013 $$$ $1,000,000

The statement's narrative gives 1893 in one passage and 1894 in another. Not yet documented: the year the building went up, the architect, the early tenants and the date of the last recorded sale. Submit an update