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1499 Grant Avenue

North Beach · San Francisco, CA 94133

  • Built 1906
  • 8-unit apartment building
  • 4 stories
  • Zoned NBEACH
  • District 3
  • Historic status: historic resource
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7,800 sq ftBuilding area
1,950 sq ftLot area
31Rooms · 8 baths
  1. 1906

    Built to the design of Enrico Quagelli, whose North Beach work the city's survey documents.

    North Beach Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  2. 1982

    Recorded in the city's 1982 survey of North Beach, adopted by the Board of Supervisors in 1999, as a contributor to the Upper Dupont Street / Grant Avenue District.

    North Beach Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  3. Mar 1982

    Additions alterations or repairs.

    Complete Permit 8201708 $$$ $2,000
  4. Apr 1982

    Sign - erect.

    Cancelled Permit 8203272 $$$ $900
  5. Apr 1982

    Additions alterations or repairs.

    Cancelled Permit 8203293 $$$ $10,000
  6. Nov 1986

    Expansion of storage into existing basement.

    Expired Permit 8614458 $$$ $25,000
  7. Mar 1987

    Install complete automatic sprinkler system for basement.

    Expired Permit 8703363 $$$ $6,500
  8. Apr 1987

    Demolition non bearing basement partitions, re #8614458.

    Expired Permit 8705007 $$$ $1,000
  9. Mar 1988

    Renew expired #8614458, new stair connection.

    Complete Permit 8804085 $$$ $25,000
  10. Aug 1988

    Kitchen hood & duct work, replace exhaust system.

    Complete Permit 8812084 $$$ $9,800
  11. Feb 1989

    Install one awning.

    Complete Permit 8902494 $$$ $2,000
  12. Mar 1989

    Patch, repair, install lighting & install seating in bsmnt.

    Withdrawn Permit 8904876 $$$ $6,500
  13. Jul 1996

    Install 2newsidewalk handicapped ramps/place new concre wall.

    Complete Permit 9613948 $$$ $15,000
  14. Nov 1996

    Replace structural slabs under sidewalk.

    Cancelled Permit 9622126 $$$ $8,000
  15. Oct 1999

    Reroofing.

    Expired Permit 9920907 $$$ $7,700
  16. Apr 2008

    Erect an electric, double faced, illuminated, projecting sign.

    Complete Permit 200804028573 $$$ $5,001
  17. Sep 2008

    Hook up & test hood & duct automatic fire suppression system.

    Issued Permit 200809222312 $$$ $1,000
  18. Aug 2009

    #g -remodel bathroom & kitchen in-kind. bathroom (60 sq): tub, sink, tile, faucet. kitchen (45 sq): faucet, coutnertop, cabinets.

    Complete Permit 200908114628 $$$ $16,000
  19. Aug 2009

    Replace 1 wood window and repalce living room bedroom hallway walls 5/8" type 'x' gypsum @ bedroom (comply to egrees window corner of union street & bannain pl. ground floor.

    Complete Permit 200908255492 $$$ $3,000
  20. Oct 2009

    Reroofing.

    Issued Permit 200910229526 $$$ $16,800
  21. Jul 2011

    1. replace floor tiles, patch dry wall. painting. no work in bathroom, finishes only. 1134b 2.1. exp 4.

    Complete Permit 201107129980 $$$ $7,000
  22. Sep 2011

    Repair stucco in front of the building located below the restaurant windows, ground level one side is 4f high 10f long in union street. the other one is 3f high, 20f long in grand avenue for everything is 3x38. 2 visible windows will be replaced.

    Cancelled Permit 201109285645 $$$ $4,900
  23. Sep 2011

    We are repairing existing tile, changing it for new tile, this is located din front of the building, street level. one side is on union st. 4 ft. high and 10 ft. long. the other one is on grant ave. 3 ft high and 20 ft. long. we also changing 3 windows glass located on top of the changing tile.

    Complete Permit 201109305892 $$$ $6,000
  24. Jul 2018

    Mandatory soft story seismic retrofit per sfbc 2016 ord 6613. cebc 2016 appendix a4 residential.

    Complete Permit 201807174762 $$$ $45,000
  25. Jul 2018

    Mandatory soft story seismic retrofit per sfbc 2016 ord 6613. cebc 2016 appendix a4 commercial portion.

    Complete Permit 201807174763 $$$ $15,000
  26. Jan 2019

    Detail change to approved app#201807174762.

    Complete Permit 201901311714 $$$ $1

DBI holds 33 permits for this parcel, most of them tenant improvements on individual floors. The timeline shows the 24 largest by stated cost, plus the earliest on file; the DBI query in the sources below returns all 33. 8 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits.

Not yet documented: the architect and builder, the early residents and the date of the last recorded sale. Submit an update