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District 6 · Block 3725, Lot 007 · ZIP 94103

Hotel George

194–198 Fifth Street

  • 9-unit apartment building with a ground-floor store
  • 5 stories
  • 10,195 ft2
  • 2,099 ft2 lot area
  • Zoned RSD
  • Historic resource
  • Sold April 8, 2019
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  1. 1912

    Built as the Hotel George. Its status code was raised on a recently available historic image showing exceptional integrity on the upper floors, and on recent scholarship on the career of Cunningham & Politeo, of whose work it is a good representative.

    Central SoMa Historic Context Statement, adopted 2016
  2. May 29, 1912

    William W. Hayes contracted to put up a five-storey and basement brick building, at $30,207.

    The San Francisco Call, 29 May 1912, p. 18
  3. September 7, 1978

    The City Planning Commission authorized, 5-2, the conversion of the Hotel George, a five-storey hotel of 48 rooms above the M & M Tavern, to an eight-unit apartment building, on condition that tenants be told of the noise from the newspaper printing plant around it (Resolution 8055).

    San Francisco City Planning Commission minutes, San Francisco Public Library (Internet Archive)
  4. Oct 1985
    Permit 8511645 $$$ $15,000

    Correct & reinforce parapets & appendages.

  5. Aug 1989
    Permit 8913739 $$$ $39,000

    Remodel interior sapce, new bar to be constructed.

  6. Dec 1989
    Permit 8925386 $$$ $15,000

    Install new hood and connect to duct.

  7. Mar 1990
    Permit 9005365 $$$ $1,100

    Install in existing kitchen, 2 1/2 gal range guard "wet" dump.

  8. Sep 1994
    Permit 9414766 $$$ $85,000

    To comply with umb code.

  9. Nov 2000
    Permit 200011145610 $$$ $70,000

    Removal of all interior moulding, panels, floor covering.

  10. Feb 2009
    Issued Permit 200902031283 $$$ $4,500

    1st/fl. ul 300 upgrade of fire suppression system at hood/kitchen area.

  11. Aug 2013
    Permit 201308265253 $$$ $65,000

    Replacing windows with milgard wood clad/ulta windows. u-factor equal or less than.4.

  12. Dec 2018
    Filed Permit 201812128110

    Install tpo roof membrane. all new flashings. remove existing. flat roof. no additions or subtractions.

  13. Dec 2018
    Permit 201812128115 $$$ $33,000

    Reroofing.

  14. May 2019
    Permit 201905211288 $$$ $1

    Tie backs extending under 198 5th street. documentation for tieback encroachment agreement only. n/a for maher. ref. permit #2019-0521-1281.

  15. Sep 2020
    Permit 202009305491 $$$ $35,000

    Upgrade existing fire alarm system to comply with sffc 11.03.7.6.1 & nfpa 72.

  16. Sep 2021
    Issued Permit 202109178663 $$$ $90,000

    Replace kitchen hvac equip in the chieftan pub. replace air make-up fan, & grease exhaust fan (on roof), & includes ancillary work such as the addition of "air-maid" grease exhaust attentuation device (in kitchen, next to the exhaust hood) & addition of grease duct inspection parts.

  17. Mar 2022
    Issued Permit 202203240814 $$$ $500

    Revision to 2021 0917 8663. adding dwgs to show spaces. connecting a pipe & nozzle from an existing ansill r-102 system (fire supression) to new exhaust system. roll: bmcd 9710.

3 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 1 expired permit is not shown.

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