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District 5 · Block 0340, Lot 008 · ZIP 94102

Winston Arms Hotel

50–52 Turk Street · Tenderloin

  • 7 stories
  • 28,039 ft2
  • 4,726 ft2 lot area
  • 104 rooms
  • 48 bathrooms
  • Zoned RC-4
  • Historic resource
  • Sold May 8, 1992
Land$795,757
Improvements$769,229
Total assessed$1,564,986
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  1. 1913

    Winston Arms Hotel, designed by Absalom Joseph Barnett.

    Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
  2. 1913

    Built as the Hotel Brayton, mid-priced hotel with 42 2-room and bath suites, to the design of the architect Absalom J. Barnettt. Seven storeys over a basement, brick structure, three-part vertical composition, Renaissance/Baroque ornamentation.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
  3. 1914

    Assessor’s “built” date.

  4. Oct 1982
    Permit 8208619 $$$ $5,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  5. May 1983
    Permit 8304246 $$$ $18,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  6. Aug 1984
    Permit 8408477 $$$ $3,000

    Repair fire damaged air shaft, plaster damaged walls.

  7. Jul 1986
    Permit 8609162 $$$ $5,000

    Remodeling new sheetrock, new paint, new aluminum window.

  8. Sep 1990
    Permit 9018218 $$$ $40,000

    Build wood frame partition between proposed laundrymat/dry.

  9. Sep 1999
    Permit 9919369 $$$ $20,000

    Reroofing.

  10. May 2007
    Issued Permit 200705070614 $$$ $25,001

    Renew expired permit 200603277550.

  11. Nov 2013
    Issued Permit 201311071401 $$$ $18,000

    To comply with nov201331471 & 201309952 for misc. repair work also installing grab bars as per ord# 029-13.

  12. Dec 2013
    Permit 201312244950 $$$ $3,200

    Bars in all 58 toilets and 49 showers in the building. 1' - 5" long 2 each in toilets and 2' and 1' - 5" in each shower unit.

  13. Dec 2013
    Issued Permit 201312265030 $$$ $5,400

    Cast iron corroded sinks with corner sinks in most units. approximately 54 sinks. to comply with his nov #201334322 dated 11/14/2013.

  14. Jan 2014
    Issued Permit 201401105977 $$$ $10,000

    Electrical, building and plumbing to comply with complaint 201336471.

  15. Apr 2014
    Permit 201404082719 $$$ $2,400

    Comply with complaint 201309952. partial compliance for inspector james galvis. not visible from street, permit for windows replaced in one unit in 1999 and 2 windows in one unit.

  16. May 2024
    Permit 202405081671 $$$ $68,000

    Like for like fire system replacement with new panel, smoke, pull at the same locations, replace existing bells with new horn storbes. install new radio low freq horns inside all units. new monitor module to tie in ex flow switch to new panel.

DBI holds 29 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 29. 11 expired or cancelled permits are not shown. This building's context statement dates the work 1913; the assessor's roll records the parcel as built 1914.

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