Presidio Terrace
San Francisco’s own Presidio Terrace is truly a historical showcase of notable San Francisco architects of the highest significance, and the homes, primarily built from 1889-1911, exhibit some of the earliest and most thoughtful suburban development in the country. The cul-de-sac layout in an oval formation with oversized lots follows a residential planning concept that was new around the turn of the century and resulted in this neighborhood, within a garden setting in a gated community, on the southern slope of Presidio Heights. Presidio Terrace is also adjacent to the Presidio Reservation, itself a 1200 acre national park, with hiking and biking trails, the Presidio Golf Course and JuliusKahn Playground nearby, and vistas of the Golden Gate.
The architectural styles include Beaux-Arts, Colonial and Mission Revival, Prairie School, French Rural, Italian Renaissance, Elizabethan and Mediterranean. An amazing collection made more significant by the importance of the architects who designed the structures in combination with city leaders who lived in them. Some of the earliest residents included Hartland and Herbert Law, Marshall Hale, Elizabeth Watt, Fernando Nelson, and Francis Keesling, the more recent former occupants were US Senator Dianne Feinstein, US Representative Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Joseph Alioto.
The Terrace developers were banker and Swiss native Antoine Borel together with realtors A.S. Baldwin and J.R.Howell whose successes also included Rancho San Miguel (Twin Peaks), St. Francis Wood and many others. Contractor Moses Fisher built ten of the homes in this enclave, having purchased seven of the lots himself.
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Address |
Architect |
Style |
Year Built |
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1 Presidio Terrace |
Newsom & Newsom |
Jacobean Revival |
1929 |
|
2 Presidio Terrace |
Frank Van Tees |
Anglo Italianate |
1905 |
|
3 Presidio Terrace |
McDonald & Applegarth |
Elizabethan Revival |
1908 |
|
4 Presidio Terrace |
McDonald & Applegarth |
Prairie School |
1911 |
|
5 Presidio Terrace |
McDonald & Applegarth |
Craftsman |
1908 |
|
6 Presidio Terrace |
Henry C. Smith |
Mission Revival |
1911 |
|
9 Presidio Terrace |
Albert Farr |
Mediterranean |
1927 |
|
10 Presidio Terrace |
Charles Whittlesey |
Prairie School |
1909 |
|
11 Presidio Terrace |
Charles Whittlesey |
Prairie School |
1909 |
|
12 Presidio Terrace |
A. Lacy Worswick |
Craftsman |
1909 |
|
13 Presidio Terrace |
Samuel Lightner Hyman |
Mediterranean |
1922 |
|
14 Presidio Terrace |
Samuel Heiman |
Mediterranean |
1921 |
|
15 Presidio Terrace |
Havens & Toepke |
Colonial Revival |
1905 |
|
16 Presidio Terrace |
Bakewell & Brown |
Colonial Revival |
1910 |
|
17 Presidio Terrace |
Ward & Bolles |
CA Contemporary |
1951 |
|
Andrew Skurman |
rebuilt 2010 |
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18 Presidio Terrace |
Bliss & Faville |
Colonial Revival |
1909 |
|
19 Presidio Terrace |
Charles Whittlesey |
Pueblo Revival |
1909 |
|
20 Presidio Terrace |
Lewis Hobart |
French Rural |
1909 |
|
21 Presidio Terrace |
T. Patterson Ross |
Mission Revival |
1910 |
|
22 Presidio Terrace |
Edward Young |
Beaux-Arts |
1907 |
|
23 Presidio Terrace |
Julius Krafft |
Colonial Revival |
1910 |
|
24 Presidio Terrace |
Charles Whittlesey |
Prairie School |
1909 |
|
25 Presidio Terrace |
Charles Whittlesey |
Prairie School |
1909 |
|
26 Presidio Terrace |
Reid Brothers |
Colonial Revival |
1909 |
|
27 Presidio Terrace |
McDonald & Applegarth |
Prairie School |
1909 |
|
28 Presidio Terrace |
Charles Whittlesey |
Prairie School |
1909 |
|
30 Presidio Terrace |
McDonald & Applegarth |
Elizabethan Revival |
1909 |
|
31 Presidio Terrace |
Frederick Nickerson |
Colonial Revival |
1909 |
|
32 Presidio Terrace |
Charles Whittlesey |
Prairie School |
1909 |
|
34 Presidio Terrace |
McDonald & Applegarth |
Beaux-Arts |
1909 |
|
35 Presidio Terrace |
Eugene Martin |
Beaux-Arts |
1916 |
|
36 Presidio Terrace |
Julia Morgan |
Beaux-Arts |
1911 |
|
37 Presidio Terrace |
Ward & Farr |
Beaux-Arts |
1927 |
|
38 Presidio Terrace |
George Schasty |
Beaux-Arts |
1911 |
|
40 Presidio Terrace |
Lewis Hobart |
Mediterranean |
1919 |