2538 28th Avenue

1. 1906

   Built.

2. 1908

   Built by the Parkside Realty Company as one of 62 near-identical cottages put up across seven blocks to bring the first residents into the new district — about 800 square feet on one storey, two bedrooms and a bath, sold with a choice of six façade treatments over a single plan. All but one of the group was still standing a century later, almost all of them raised over a basement garage in the meantime.

   Parkside District Historic Context Statement, adopted 2008
3. Oct 1983

   Permit 8310293 $$$ $1,577

   Installation of 6 aluminum windows.

4. Mar 2009

   Permit 200903305161 $$$ $95,000

   1st. floor.: remodel (2) bedrms., fam. rm. & bathrm. change furn. & with h. replace dilapidited conc. slab. 2nd. floor.: remodel master bath & master bedrm., re-design location of (2) bedrms, a bathrm., kitchen voluntary seismic upgrading of residence. provide rear deck 3'-5" above grade.

5. Aug 2009

   Permit 200908114571 $$$ $35,000

   Revision to application 2009-0330-5161. foundation to be replaced with new foundation.

1 expired permit is omitted. The Parkside context statement dates the building here to 1908; the assessor dates the building on this parcel to 1906.