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Overview

A New Bedford, MA, sea captain, Charles Adams, transplanted himself to San Francisco in the 1850s. He reestablished a whaling business here in Mission Bay, and purchased 13 acres of land in the area nearby to 18th and Pennsylvania Streets and nearby to port facilities. In 1867, he erected this two-floor Italianate residence which survived the April 1906 Earthquake that destroyed much of San Francisco north of Market Street. Two other contemporary Italianate residences--the Richards House and the Croall House--built on Adams's original tract, have survived to the present.

Alteration

The roof's widow's walk was removed after 1886.

PCAD id: 20851