870 Bush Street

Built.

The city bought the lot in 1902 and housed Engine 38 here from 1903 until the firehouse burned in 1906.

Built from the summer of 1921 to February 1922 as the fire chief's official residence, made to look like a firehouse with great double doors, and accepted by the fire commissioners on 5 April 1922. Its brick front, bronze doors and gutters, tile roof and memorial tablet were paid for by the $20,000 fund raised for a monument to Chief Dennis T. Sullivan (1852–1906), mortally injured when the earthquake brought the neighbouring hotel's chimneys through his firehouse bedroom; the trustees gave up on a statue in Golden Gate Park, which John McLaren disliked.

Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 42, Dennis T. Sullivan Memorial Home.

The City Planning Commission approved designating the Dennis T. Sullivan Memorial Fire Chief's Home as a City Landmark.

By 26 August 1971, the Board of Supervisors had approved, on second reading, designating the Dennis T. Sullivan Memorial Fire Chief's Home as a city landmark.

The house was the Fire Chief's official residence; the Fire Department's capital programme proposed modernising its kitchens and bathrooms, work it would drop if the residence were sold.