825 South Van Ness Ave, Inner Mission

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Charles M. Rousseau (1862-1916) designed 2,024 square foot Queen Anne Victorian built in 1892. Last sold for $799K in 2001. Market value is about $2.4 million.

c. 1995

Considered historically significant as part of the Inner Mission North Historic Resource Survey

If you would like to learn something about Victorian architecture, read this amazingly informative description from the aforementioned Resource Survey (1995): This is a rectangular plan with side and rear pop-outs, two-and-a-half story building with raised basement and front gable roof.

The building is shiplap-clad a at the basement, clapboard-clad at the main stories, and clad in rectangular imbricated wood shingles at the attic. The façade is separated into two structural bays. The left bay contains terrazzo steps at grade leading to the main entrance at the first floor.

Above the entrance, a slightly projecting triangular window bay is found, with windows separated by a spiral pilaster that blooms into a foliated relief panel above the windows. The left window bay features a triangular, dentil-molded pediment hood with finials, turned wood pendant, and tympanum bead ornaments, supported by decorative brackets.

c. 1976

The right corner of the building is set diagonally, with windows found at the flat and canted façade, set within square, raised spandrels. The corner windows feature spindlework hoods with turned wood pendants and elongated, shaped brackets, with the first story hood located beneath a turned wood balconet at the second story.

A festooned frieze is located over the right bay, below a dentil cornice. The roof is an open rake gable, with diagonally molded bargeboards, a turned wood pendant, a foliated relief panel set forward in the gable peak. A dentil-molded collar beam is supported by brackets. An attic window features a scroll-sawn panel beneath the sill.

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