Lafayette Apartments

1. 1900

   Built.

2. 1905

   The first of the large Pacific Heights apartment buildings that occupied its architect for the next twenty years — elegant, highly decorated Classical Revival with a slight French inflection.

   The West Slope of Russian Hill: A Historical Context and Inventory of Historic Resources, 2006, revised 2009
3. 1905

   The Lafayette Apartments — five storeys over a basement, standing across from Lafayette Park, and one of only two large apartment buildings the city's citywide survey identified as predating the 1906 earthquake.

   Large Apartment Buildings Historic Context Statement, adopted 2024
4. Oct 1993

   Permit 9318413 $$$ $15,000

   Parapet correction.

5. Jul 1998

   Permit 9814727 $$$ $80,000

   Umb seismic upgrade.

6. Jul 2003

   Permit 200307219932 $$$ $10,494

   Install 29 windows, not visible from public right-of way, vinyl single hung replacement, wood double.

7. Apr 2023

   Permit 202304115491 $$$ $6,460

   Replace (5) alum windows to vinyl windows with double glass, the same size and location, u=0.3max. not visible from street.

8. 2024

   Evaluated in the city's citywide survey of large apartment buildings as an excellent Beaux-Arts example of an early apartment building that survived 1906, retaining a high level of integrity and appearing eligible for listing under Criterion C/3 (Architecture).

   Large Apartment Buildings Historic Context Statement, adopted 2024
9. Mar 2024

   Permit 202403057100 $$$ $3,580

   One unit: replace 2 windows in kind not visible from the street. u-factor 0.30 or better.

10. Oct 2025

    Issued Permit 202510288290 $$$ $65,000

    Replacement of existing system with new control panel, smoke detectors, pull stations and horn strobes. install new radio communicator and relay modules and low frquency sounders inside all units.

4 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 4 expired permits are not shown. The assessor dates the building to 1900; the city's historic context statement for this area gives 1905. The city's two context statements for this building disagree about it: the Russian Hill statement gives the architect as C. A. Meussdorffer and the style as Classical Revival with a slight French inflection, while the citywide statement on large apartment buildings records the architect as unknown and the style as Beaux-Arts.