1088 Green Street

1. 1908

   Built as a firehouse to the design of Newton J. Tharp, the City Architect, one of the municipal buildings that replaced the twenty-two of the city's forty-four firehouses lost in 1906. The construction contract was let to John Dahlin in February for $7,380, and it housed Engine Company 31 until 1952.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
2. 1908

   The firehouse was designed under the city architect Newton J. Tharp, appointed by Mayor Taylor in 1907 to rebuild the city's public buildings, in a half-timbered Tudor Revival meant, as the Municipal Record put it, to "conform with the architectural features of the private residences of the district" rebuilt on Russian Hill, rather than the Beaux-Arts of most civic buildings.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
3. 1952

   After 44 years the fire station was decommissioned and declared surplus, one of many as the city's stations fell from 66 to 45, and slated for demolition.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
4. August 8, 1952

   Photographed.

   San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection (SFP 162), San Francisco Public Library
5. 1958

   The philanthropist Louise M. Davies bought the firehouse and made it her pied-à-terre and a private museum of fire-house memorabilia; in 1978 she deeded it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sold it in the late 1990s to the St. Andrew's Society, long its tenant, on condition that it be nominated as a landmark.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
6. May 1988

   Permit 8805884 $$$ $44,200

   Repair settling at rear wall.

7. Jul 1988

   Permit 8808981 $$$ $5,400

   Installing a complete automatic fire sprinkler system.

8. Jul 1988

   Permit 8810098 $$$ $3,730

   New fire escape balcony with drop ladder at rear of building.

9. 1998

   Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 220, Engine Company No. 31 Firehouse.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
10. Sep 2008

    Permit 200809192058 $$$ $16,000

    Install interior door (on interior stairs). replace existing kitchen cabinets and appliances in existing location. no change to exterior.

2 expired or cancelled permits are omitted.