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290 Lombard Street

North Beach · San Francisco, CA 94133

  • Built 1940
  • 10-unit apartment building
  • 6 stories
  • Zoned RM-2
  • District 3
  • Historic status: historic resource
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18,844 sq ftBuilding area
4,260 sq ftLot area
49Rooms · 16 baths
  1. 1930s

    A six-story apartment building whose bulk was blamed for blocking views from Telegraph Hill and credited with bringing about the forty-foot height limit on the hill.

    North Beach Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  2. Jun 1989

    38' 6" flagpole on parapet wall.

    Complete Permit 8909549 $$$ $4,100
  3. Jul 1990

    Repair of cracked & spalled exterior walls shown on photo.

    Expired Permit 9012907 $$$ $54,164
  4. May 1998

    Bring existing laundry room to code.

    Expired Permit 9808316 $$$ $1,500
  5. Jan 1999

    Remove & install new baseboards crown molding remove/inst do.

    Expired Permit 9900089 $$$ $100,000
  6. Feb 1999

    Reroofing.

    Expired Permit 9902172 $$$ $21,950
  7. Apr 1999

    Upgrading the fire alarm system.

    Expired Permit 9906280 $$$ $8,000
  8. Apr 1999

    Replace kitchen cabs, new appliances, install new linonleum.

    Expired Permit 9907273 $$$ $14,000
  9. Oct 1999

    Replace rusted steel fram window.

    Expired Permit 9921863 $$$ $30,000
  10. Dec 1999

    Kitchen remodeling, new cabinets, appliances one unit.

    Expired Permit 9925810 $$$ $5,000
  11. Feb 2000

    Remodel kitchen.

    Expired Permit 200002293116 $$$ $10,000
  12. Jun 2002

    To renew app#2000/02/29/3116 for final inspection.

    Complete Permit 200206249807 $$$ $1
  13. Jun 2007

    One unit - kitchen remodeling: new cabinet, counter, flooring, new fluorescent light fixture. no structural work. at least 50% lighting wattage must be fluorescent. exhaust fan connect to existing duct.

    Complete Permit 200706042854 $$$ $20,000
  14. Jun 2018

    Interior renovation of (2) units (21 & 22) on the 2nd fl. including demolition, partial merger and conversion of units by enlarging one and reducing the other.

    Withdrawn Permit 201806212569 $$$ $100,000
  15. Aug 2018

    Interior removation of one unit and one unit on the 2nd floor. no structural modifications or alterations. demolition all interior walls, replace kitchens and bathrooms per unit, new laundry closet in 1 unit.

    Complete Permit 201808308798 $$$ $100,000
  16. Aug 2024

    Reroofing.

    Complete Permit 202408138565 $$$ $37,400
  17. Jan 2025

    Install new facu, new pull station, new bell unit, new smoke detectors, new low freq sounders. new horn-strobes, new modules.

    Complete Permit 202501228836 $$$ $63,143

6 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline.

The city's survey's text places this apartment building in the early 1930s while its own Figure 37 caption gives a construction date of 1940. Not yet documented: the architect and builder, the early residents and the date of the last recorded sale. Submit an update