David Lewis House

1. 1892

   Built — the Water Department's record is dated September 26 — by and for David Lewis, a cabinetmaker in the Brannan Street firms of Vandenburgh & Lewis and later Lewis & Hassfurther: a Queen Anne working-class row house with a corner tower over the door, siding below and bands of fish-scale and diamond shingles above, and his own built-in cabinets, bookcases and desks under the eaves. A basement room, perhaps his workshop, is papered with blueprints of houses by William Koenig, the McDonald Brothers, Mahoney & Ryland and N. Blaisdell for the new Page Street–Panhandle neighbourhood.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
2. 1910

   Built.

3. 1966–1987

   From 1966 the house was a meeting place of the city's preservation movement: the Friends of Noe Valley committee that planted 450 trees in 1968, early meetings of the Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods and of the Duskin anti-high-rise campaign, the Victorian Alliance's campaign to save the City of Paris, and the campaigns for the Alamo Square and Liberty Hill historic districts, with house tours raising money for the Dutch Windmill and McLaren Lodge.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
4. 1988

   Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 186, David Lewis House.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
5. Jul 2010

   Issued Permit 201007076129 $$$ $9,000

   Reroofing.

The assessor's roll gives 1910; the city's statement on Victorian era styles gives 1892.