898 Francisco Street
Russian Hill · San Francisco, CA 94109
A large house of 1914 on the corner of Francisco and Hyde, beside the Powell–Hyde cable car line. It carries the highest assessed value of any address documented here. A published guide to notable residences records Nicolas Cage as a resident, without dates.
Permit history
Sixteen permits, 1989–2022. Five small bathroom and kitchen jobs were filed in 1989, most expired, and were renewed together in 1996. The outlier is 2014: a permit to expand the two-car garage and add to the rear, estimated at $950,000 and revised to $1,500,000. It is still recorded as issued, not completed.
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Nov 2022
Remove the natural slate roof and install composite synthetic shingle with copper valleys and ridges.
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Oct 2022
Remodel two bathrooms and remove a non-load-bearing wall.
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Nov 2020
Kitchen remodel; four rear windows replaced in the same size and location.
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Mar 2014
Expand the two-car garage and add a rear addition to the house — the largest permit recorded anywhere on this site, and still open.
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Jan 2004
Repair dry rot per termite report 42301.
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Mar 2001
Restore the fence on the Hyde Street side of Francisco Street, destroyed by the storm of 4–5 March.
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Dec 2000
Replace nine metal windows with wooden double-insulated casement sash, frames to remain.
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Sep 1996
Relocate walls, partitions and fixtures; replace ten windows.
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1996
Termite work per report 952047, and a filing to revive the lapsed 1989 bathroom permits.
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Jul 1989
Kitchen remodelling — one of five small filings that year, most of which expired.
Not yet documented: the architect and builder; whether the house has three storeys or four, since the assessor and a 2014 permit disagree; whether the 2014 garage and rear addition were ever built; and any dates for the reported residency. Know any of it? Tell us — just describe it in plain words.