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District 6 · Block 3754, Lot 057 · ZIP 94103

1015 Folsom Street

Store building

  • 2 stories
  • 16,405 ft2
  • 7,500 ft2 lot area
  • 3 bathrooms
  • Wood frame
  • Zoned SLR
  • Historic resource
  • Sold August 4, 1993
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  1. 1932

    Built.

  2. 1932

    An Art Deco-style concrete commercial building, later known as the "Sutro Bathhouse."

    South of Market Area Historic Context Statement, adopted 2011
  3. 1973

    Big Town, a complex of gay businesses, occupied this address from 1973 to 1974.

    Damon Scott for the Friends of 1800, Sexing the City: The Development of Sexual Identity Based Subcultures in San Francisco, 1933–1979, historic context statement, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted 2004
  4. 1976

    The Tubs, a bathhouse, occupied this address from 1976 to 1977.

    Damon Scott for the Friends of 1800, Sexing the City: The Development of Sexual Identity Based Subcultures in San Francisco, 1933–1979, historic context statement, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted 2004
  5. 1977

    The Sutro Bath House moved here about 1977; it had a cafe, barbershop, gift shop and a dance floor covered by a 60-foot skylight, and closed in 1984.

    Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson, Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted by the Historic Preservation Commission November 18, 2015
  6. 1978

    The Folsom Street Baths, a bathhouse, occupied this address from 1978 to 1979.

    Damon Scott for the Friends of 1800, Sexing the City: The Development of Sexual Identity Based Subcultures in San Francisco, 1933–1979, historic context statement, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted 2004
  7. 1984

    Closed by the San Francisco Public Health Department in 1984, with the city’s other gay bathhouses, as AIDS spread; it had traded as the Sutro Bathhouse since 1979.

    South of Market Area Historic Context Statement, adopted 2011
  8. Apr 1985
    Permit 8504445 $$$ $1,000

    Electric single faced wall.

  9. Apr 1985
    Permit 8504444 $$$ $500

    Electric single faced wall.

  10. Apr 1985
    Permit 8504446 $$$ $500

    Electric single faced wall.

  11. Jul 1985
    Permit 8507275 $$$ $3,900

    Installation of a wet type automatic fire sprinkler system.

  12. Jul 1985
    Permit 8507308 $$$ $5,500

    Install 9 canvas awning frames & covers.

  13. Oct 1991
    Permit 9120333 $$$ $8,000

    Post-beam connection reinforcement, brick retaining wall.

  14. 1993

    Colossus, later Product, a nightclub, opened here in 1993 and traded into the early 1990s.

    Damon Scott for the Friends of 1800, Sexing the City: The Development of Sexual Identity Based Subcultures in San Francisco, 1933–1979, historic context statement, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted 2004
  15. Jan 2017
    Permit 201701066693 $$$ $1

    Obtain final inspection for work approved under permit application 3601649. all work is complete.

  16. Jan 2017
    Permit 201701066694 $$$ $1

    Obtain final inspection for work approved under pa 2001-0628-2549, 2000-0725-6099 and 2000-0509-9490. all work is complete.

  17. Jan 2017
    Permit 201701066695 $$$ $1

    Obtain final inspection for work approved under permit application 9926724, 9926723 and 9900277. all work is complete.

  18. Nov 2017
    Issued Permit 201711073422 $$$ $27,000

    Reroofing.

  19. Mar 2019
    Issued Permit 201903256163 $$$ $4,000

    Apply p-10z operational permit; permitting as built legalize existing c02 tank, add additional co2 monitoring system n/a maher.

DBI holds 33 permits for this parcel, most of them tenant improvements on individual floors. The timeline shows the 24 largest by stated cost, plus the earliest on file; the DBI query in the sources below returns all 33. 13 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.

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