Grab Bag #37
Is a house from the Gold Rush still standing in San Francisco's Western Addition?
These days, my age, sartorial inclinations, and posture have me looking like Luke, the Hotel Belvedere’s house detective in the Maltese Falcon:
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?