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District 3 · Block 0150, Lot 021 · ZIP 94133

40 Florence Street

Single-family house

  • 3 stories
  • 5,250 ft2
  • 7,758 ft2 lot area
  • 12 rooms
  • 5 bedrooms
  • 5 bathrooms
  • Wood frame
  • Zoned RH-2
  • Historic resource
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  1. c. 1857

    Built as a two-storey house, one of three in the district drawn on the Coast Survey's map of 1859.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
  2. c. 1891

    Polk & Gamble remodelled the parlour with Willis Polk's signature natural redwood panelling and slender fluted columns — the one interior that survives essentially intact.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
  3. c. 1897

    Enlarged with a third floor, new projections and a natural-shingle skin, probably to Willis Polk's design, turning the old house into a First Bay Area Tradition one.

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

    Built.

  5. 1920

    Altered by the builders Ferguson & Son.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
  6. 1950s

    Altered by Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, including a new entry walkway.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
  7. 1986–1987

    Robert Stern reworked the house again as a shingled design in the First Bay Area Tradition, keeping the exterior shingles and the Polk parlour.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
  8. Aug 1986
    Permit 8610440 $$$ $600,000

    Horizontal extension, breakfast room & den addition.

  9. Sep 1986
    Permit 8611180 $$$ $87,000

    Removal of non-bearing walls & asbestos/no structural work.

  10. Oct 1986
    Permit 8612439 $$$ $10,000

    Remove interior drywall & plaster.

  11. Jul 1987
    Permit 8710052 $$$ $2,500

    Replace fire escape.

  12. Oct 1988
    Permit 8815828 $$$ $810,000

    Upgrade of construction cost from approx.$700000 to $1500000.

  13. Jul 2010
    Permit 201007277575 $$$ $35,000

    Remodel kitchen- change couner tops in kind, re-paint, re-stain floors, kitchen size approx 400 sq ft.

1 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permit is omitted from the timeline. 1 expired permit is not shown. Recorded as built c. 1857; the assessor's roll gives 1900.

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