November 27, 2007

  • Tuesday, September 27

    I headed out Corbett to Portola to Woodside to Dewey to Taravel and then down to the coast.  I came up the great highway and came back on Cabrillo to Arguello to Mcallister to Parker to Golden Gate.  I turned on Broderick and made a couple of interesting discoveries on Broderick at Turk.  The first is this horribly renovated building on the corner.  Formstone should be a crime in the United States.  I'm guessing that underneath all of that is a gorgeous house from the 1870's.  It has a Mansard Roof which is pretty unusual in San Francisco.  In addition it has a sizeable outbuilding behind it. 

    It's been cut up into apartments and I can't imagine it would be easy to kick everybody out and renovate, but it somebody did I'll bet it would be spectacular when finished.  The second thing I discovered was this ENORMOUS mansion next door to it hiding coyly behind hideous siding:

    This place is a little later than it's neighbor on the corner--  maybe 1880 or so-- and It looks like it has a bit of a garden in the back.  There's a lot of detail still on it but who know what's underneath all that siding:

    Here's one of me at Turk and Broderick:

    The neighborhood continues to improve and maybe one day we'll see this fabulous buildings returned to their original splendor.  I continued on Turk to Divisadero to Eddy to Taylor to O'Farrell to Powell to Post to Kearny to Bush to Sansome and then into work.