540 Darien way, Balboa Terrace

Harold Stoner designed 3,565 square foot Storybook Tudor built in 1928. Last sold for $590K in 1995. Current estimates value the property at about $3.2 million.

2642 17th Ave, Inner Parkside

1,605 square foot 2 bedroom 1 bath Storybook Tudor built in 1937. Currently listed for $1.98 million.

More Interior Photos HERE

360 Castenada Ave, Forest Hill

2,181+ square foot 4 bedroom 4 bath Storybook Tudor built in 1924. Last sold for $540K in 1996. Horizontal additions in 1985 and 2002. Current estimates value the property at about $1.7 million. I so wanted that car NOT to be there!!!

1500 36th Ave, Central Sunset

2,405 square foot Period Revival style home built in 1932. Designed by home builder, developer, contractor, and architect Oliver M. Rousseau to be used as his private residence. Current estimates value the property at about $1.9 million. There are no recent sales records for this property.

MORE ABOUT OLIVER M. ROUSSEAU (1891-1977)
✦Style: Best known for period revival or "storybook" row houses

✦Active: Rousseau started with his father's firm, then built and designed tract homes and apartments in San Francisco, the East Bay and elsewhere from the 1910s into the 1970s.

✦Known for: Charming row houses with turrets, balconies and painted beam ceilings in the Sunset.

✦Other practitioners: Charles Clausen, the Gellert brothers and Herman C. Baumann are among builders and architects who designed similar homes in San Francisco's outlying neighborhoods.

✦Where to see Rousseaus: The finest collection of Rousseaus can be found along 33rd through 36th avenues between Kirkham and Lawton streets.

Brightening the Sunset Oliver Rousseau, a Depression-era Builder

125 San Rafael Way, Balboa Terrace

c. 2010

1,455 square foot 3 bedroom 2 bath Period Revival-Storybook style residence built in 1924. Last sold for $1.05 million in 2010. Current estimates value the property at about $1.3 million.

Broker Babble: Designed by celebrated San Francisco architect, Harold G. Stoner, 3 plus BD & 2.5 bath 1924 home is perched on an extraordinary tree-lined block in Balboa Terrace. Unique peaked roofline & storybook facade, exquisite sunken living room + step up gracious dng room. Large Family/Media room located on the main floor off of the kitchen +brkfst room with french doors onto lvly garden and two car garage. Bonus room in basement.

Interior Photos HERE

241 San Fernando Way, Balboa Terrace

2,640 square foot 3 bedroom 2.5 bath Harold Stoner Storybook home built in 1922. Last sold for $1.505 million in 2011 (94K under asking). Stoner designed more than 60% of the homes in the Balboa Terrace neighborhood.

About Storybook Style — 1920 to 1930s
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Storybook or fairytale style often has much in common with the bungalow, English Cottage, Tudor Revival, or Norman/French Revival styles and is often subsumed in those definitions. Its defining characteristic might best be described at the kind of house you'd imagine Seven Dwarves or some happy Hobbits heading home to at the end of a hard day of work.

Whimsical with towers, turrets, columns, and colonnades, the Storybook house often has mullioned casement windows, arched or half-round doors, stucco siding, half-timbering, and ornate hardware or lighting fixtures. This is a style that makes an extremely charming small house, though replicating such unique hand-crafted and irregular spaces today would be very expensive per square foot.

Design elements might be taken from a variety of folkloric sources, not just English fairytales. Moorish tile and arches from the Arabian Nights, or intricately carved woodwork straight out of the Russian fairy tales about Baba Yaga, would not be out of place.

As with the bungalow and ranch, the Storybook style originated in California. It was the child of the returning WWI veteran, who had discovered the charms of French and English residential architecture, and the Hollywood starlet who contributed her imagination and optimism with childlike enthusiasm.

SALES HISTORY
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1998 $445K
2004 $1.401 million

Interior Photos HERE

More about Harold G. Stoner HERE

2128 Lyon St, Pacific Heights

2,712 square foot High peaked Colonial Revival style home built in 1904. Last sold for $68K in 1969. Current estimates value the property at $3.1 million.

2015-2016 ASSESSMENT AND TAXES
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Assessed at $147,975 Property Taxes $1,737.67 (Prop 13 beneficiary)

Interesting bit of Trivia from Who's Who in California (Volume 1942-43, page 212)

Home Address: 2128 Lyon St., San Francisco, Calif.

TRUBY, Brigadier General Albert E..

U.S.Army, B.S., M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.M.A.

Medical Officer, U.S. Army (retired).

Born: Otto (N.Y.). July 18, 1871; s. of Minnie

(Ackerman) and John Truby.

Education: Cornell University; Univ. of Penn.

Degrees: B.S., 1894 and M.D., 1897, Univ. of Penn.

Married: Elizabeth Downing in San Leandro
(Calif.), April 26. 1906 (granddaughter of
the late Socrates Huff, a Calif. Pioneer); ch.:
Elizabeth, Mrs. Barbara Truby LaGarde, John
Orrien.

Army Record: Commissioned in Medical Corps
U.S. Army, July 23. 1898. as a First Lieut.;
promoted through all grades to Brig. General,
Jan. 1. 1933; served in Spanish-American War
in Cuba, and Chief Health Officer (Panama
Canal), during World War I; retired, Aug. 1,
1935.

Memberships: Fellow, Amer. Coll. of Sur-
geons, Fellow, Amer. Med. Assn.; Mason.

Religion: Protestant.

Politics: Republican.

Recreations: Golf, fishing.