Sylvester House
| Sylvester House | |
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| Location | 1556 Revere Avenue, San Francisco, California, 94124, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 37°43′53″N 122°23′21″W / 37.731523°N 122.389136°W |
| Built | between 1865 and 1870 |
| Built for | Daniel Sylvester, Maria Sylvester |
| Architect | Stephen L. Piper |
| Architectural style(s) | Italianete |
| Designated | April 5, 1974[1] |
| Reference no. | 61 |
  Location of Sylvester House in San Francisco County  Sylvester House (California) | |
Sylvester House is a historic house, begun in 1865 and completed c. 1870 in the Bayview–Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The Sylvester House has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since April 5, 1974.[2][1]
History
[edit]This three-story house, located at located at 1556 Revere Avenue, San Francisco, was built between 1865 and 1870, by local master builder and carpenter Stephen L. Piper.[3][4] Piper also constructed the nearby Bayview Opera House, ca. 1883.[citation needed] It was designed in the Italianate style, with a symmetrical, flat front façade and features a full width front porch.[5][6] The original building featured a side wrap around porch on the East facade, a widows walk and upper gallery balustrades at the second floor walk-out porch.[citation needed]
The Sylvester House was originally located on Quesada Avenue (then called Sumatra Street), and was re-located downhill from the original site in 1913 to its present location on Revere Avenue.[4][6] When this home was built, the surrounding area was rural land, the home was surrounded by grazing land and several outbuildings. The area was then considered part of South San Francisco. Newer grid patterned streets replaced the original country lanes between 1907–1912, with the former 18th Avenue renamed Revere Avenue.[citation needed]
The home was built for Maria (née) Donnelly and Daniel Sylvester (a native of Hesse, Germany), and the Sylvester family's eight children.[7][8] It was occupied from 1884 to 1900 by their children, Daniel and John Sylvester, who were wholesale meat butchers and cattle dealers in what was then known as Butchertown (now Bayview–Hunters Point).[4][9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks" (PDF). City of San Francisco. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
- ^ McGrew, Patrick (1991). Landmarks of San Francisco. H.N. Abrams. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-8109-3557-0.
- ^ "San Francisco Landmark #61: Sylvester House". noehill.com. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ a b c "Guides: 61. Sylvester House". The San Francisco Examiner. 1974-12-22. p. 187. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ Bevk, Alex (2016-04-20). "A mapped introduction to San Francisco's varieties of Victorians". Curbed SF. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ a b Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Gibbs Smith. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4.
- ^ O'Brien, Tricia (2005). San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point. Arcadia Publishing. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-7385-3007-9.
- ^ "Sylvester Obituary". The San Francisco Call. 1897-12-02. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "Death of John Sylvester". The San Francisco Examiner. 1881-11-20. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-11-24.