290 Lombard Street

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. 1940

   Built.

3. 1940

   Designed by Herman C. Baumann.

   Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
4. Jun 1989

   Permit 8909549 $$$ $4,100

   38' 6" flagpole on parapet wall.

5. Jun 2002

   Permit 200206249807 $$$ $1

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

6. Jun 2007

   Permit 200706042854 $$$ $20,000

   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.

7. Jun 2018

   Withdrawn Permit 201806212569 $$$ $100,000

   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.

8. Aug 2018

   Permit 201808308798 $$$ $100,000

   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.

9. Aug 2024

   Permit 202408138565 $$$ $37,400

   Reroofing.

10. Jan 2025

    Permit 202501228836 $$$ $63,143

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

6 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 9 expired permits are not shown. 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.