Ohlandt Newlyweds House

1. 1876

   Nicholas Ohlandt — president of the National Ice and Cold Storage Company and of the German Savings and Loan Society, and earlier a maker of charcoal, neatsfoot oil and fertiliser — bought a vacant hundred-foot strip along the projected west side of Potrero Avenue running the whole way from 24th Street to 25th.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
2. 1888

   A one-storey Stick/Eastlake cottage about 35 by 60 feet was built, set back some 25 feet from the pavement; no construction record for it has been found and the builder is unknown. It has squared bay windows, vertical strips and brackets, a false mansard, a sunburst in the gable, a wide panelled band under the cornice, and three carved marble mantelpieces, each different — the front room's arched in an Italianate manner already a little old-fashioned, the parlour's and the dining room's squared in the Stick/Eastlake style. Water service was connected in January 1889.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
3. 1888

   When it was built the cottage was the south-easternmost dwelling in the Mission, pushing the district's worker housing a little further towards the former salt marsh around Precita and Islais Creeks. The instability of the filled ground may be why it was built only one storey, and the risk of flooding from the marsh why the basement stands so high. It is now the only nineteenth-century building left on its block.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
4. 1900

   Built.

5. February 1902

   The house, which the Ohlandt family had kept while letting relatives live in it, was deeded away in February 1902. The family held the rest of the block face until at least 1911.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
6. March 16, 1951

   The Office of the Assessor-Recorder photographed the property for tax assessment.

   Assessor-Recorder Photographs (SFP 23), San Francisco Public Library
7. Jan 1993

   Permit 9301404 $$$ $11,000

   Remodel existing bath/laundry rm. kitchen, stud walls.

8. August 19, 1994

   Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an example of the Stick/Eastlake cottage — a form whose survivors citywide were then put at roughly six hundred, out of some 3,600 Stick/Eastlake buildings of every kind.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
9. Sep 1995

   Permit 9515383 $$$ $18,000

   Install driveway on side set back for 2 cars.

1 expired permit is omitted. The assessor's roll gives 1900; the nomination dates the cottage to about 1888, with water service connected in January 1889.