Grab Bag #37
Is a house from the Gold Rush still standing in San Francisco's Western Addition?
![Grab Bag #37](/content/images/size/w2000/2024/07/Ghost-feature-3.jpg)
These days, my age, sartorial inclinations, and posture have me looking like Luke, the Hotel Belvedere’s house detective in the Maltese Falcon:
![Maltese Falcon still](https://www.sanfranciscostory.com/content/images/2024/07/luke.jpg)
But rather than roust two-bit gunsels, I spend too much time being a different kind of house detective. Researching something else, I found mention in a 1922 article of an early San Francisco house built with lumber shipped around Cape Horn:
“The old Sullivan homes, which was located on Ellis street, where now stands the Century Theater [then between Powell and Stockton streets], was first moved to a location at Oak and Buchanan streets and was then moved to its present site at the corner of Baker and McAllister streets.”
A house from the Gold Rush days was still standing in 1922. Could it still be standing in 2024?