55–57 Ramona Avenue

Two-flat · Mission

2 stories
2,660 ft²
1,873 ft² lot area
10 rooms
4 bathrooms
Wood frame
Zoned RH-3
Historic resource

Land$30,232

Improvements$146,940

Total assessed$177,172

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1912

Built.
April 14, 1912

Charles Coburn contracted to put up two-storey and basement frame flats, at $4,347.50.

The San Francisco Call, 14 April 1912, p. 56
Aug 2002

Permit 200208295248 $$$ $8,000

Reroofing.
May 2010

Permit 201005243050 $$$ $6,500

Replace existing wood stairs & deck with new in like kind at rear yard. replace 8 windows at rear with new.
Apr 2015

Permit 201504143596 $$$ $60,000

2nd fl: add 1 bathroom, remodel kitchen and 1 bath. 3rd fl: add 1 bathroom, remodel kitchen and 1 bath.

3 nominal $1 street-space permits are omitted.

Inner Mission North Context Statement, adopted 2004

Contributor to the Ramona Street National Register eligible district (55-57 Ramona 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 (55-57 Ramona 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.

Historic district

Ramona Street

Significant 1911–1923

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

Nearby

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