1019 Vallejo Street

1. 1892

   The western half of the Williams-Polk double house by Polk & Polk, built for the painter Dora Norton Williams, who paid Willis Polk's family for it with half the building and lot.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
2. 1900

   Built.

3. 1915

   Laura Ingalls Wilder stayed here with her daughter, the Bulletin reporter Rose Wilder Lane, during the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and wrote home about the flat and its view of the bay in the letters later published as West From Home.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
4. Feb 1985

   Disapproved Permit 8501516 $$$ $100

   Comply with h21394.

5. Jul 1988

   Permit 8808831 $$$ $3,780

   Provide fire sprinkler protection at lowest floor.

6. Jun 1992

   Filing Permit 9210413 $$$ $100

   Replace existing side rear property line window.

7. Nov 1992

   Permit 9219376 $$$ $11,900

   Reroofing.

8. Mar 1996

   Permit 9604269 $$$ $500

   Renew expired permit appn. 9210408 for final inspection.

9. Oct 1999

   Permit 9921516 $$$ $95,000

   Restore house, new front yrd misc. improvments inside, fence.

5 expired or cancelled permits are omitted. Recorded as built 1892; the assessor's roll gives 1900.