If price is no nevermind and killer views are a must: 2500 Steiner St #11 is on the market.
Asking price: $6.75m
Association dues: $3212.19/month
“Views, Views, Views! 3 bedrooms plus library, 3 baths, plus maids room and bath.”
4K sq ft, mas o menos, although the listing doesn’t tell you that.
The Chron had a nice little feature about the building last June. Susie Tompkins Buell lives upstairs, in the penthouse.
(1) Who wrote
I had to know — see? — because I’m sorting books by author and these 19thc. anonymous books were driving me nuts. Who was the author? Were they fiction or memoir?
Answer: Marie Annette Beauchamp, cousin to writer Katherine Mansfield (nee Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp). Fiction.
(2) Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Paul and Virginia. Ltd ed. 800c. 450 GB 350 USA. London. Routledge. 1888. #639.
cracking hinges. foldup box in good shape. worth?
(3) Vicar of Wakefield – Goldsmith. Rackham illustrations. Philadelphia. McKay. Printed in GB by Riverside Press. in box w/ illustration on cover. worth?
(4) War&Peace. Heritage Press. Limited Editions Club. 1938. 2 v. boxed. worth?
(5) signed prints. flowers (3) birds (2) . G. Juniga. (Zuniga?)
Oh, yes. I have a swell and marvelous time sorting books. And again. Tomorrow!
A lot’s been said about the “street view” recently made available with Google Maps. Invasion of privacy? How did they get inside the gated community to do their driveby? How can they just take pictures of people and put them up on the Web without asking permission? and yadda and so forth.
What hasn’t been talked about (much) are the new uses the street view is being used for.
Example primo: blog post today from SocketSite: San Francisco real estate tips, trends and the local scoop: “Plug In” to SocketSite™
SocketSite covered a “for sale” listing for an unreinforced masonry three bedroom one-and-a-half bath single family home at 645 Hyde listed at $965K.
The comments came thick and furious. (Two of them, in fact, were mine.) Comments about the neighborhood (the Tenderloin) and the local drug wars and other crime. Comments about the noise. Comments about the “courtyard” and why-are-there-no-pictures-of-the-inside? Comments about the cost to reinforce an UMB (and you would want to, wouldn’t you, in this bucolic village?)
Someone popped in with a “Google street view also shows a massive smokestack rising from behind the building, it is missing in the MLS pictures.” Which it is, not due to eliding the stack from the photos but due to clever photo cropping.
Conversation continued re what the smokestack was (“Station S. Located at 1 Meacham Place. Equipped with three boilers: one in operation producing 65,000 lb/hr of steam and two that are installed and permitted but not currently in use. All boilers are fueled 100 percent by natural gas; No. 2 diesel is available as a backup fuel.” … Meacham Place is the alley immediately to the rear of the building that’s for sale)
I wouldn’t have thought (although from now on I probably will) to use Google street view to check out the surrounds of any listing I’m halfway curious about.
Any other interesting uses for Google street view? Probably so.
Powered by WordPress