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The Richards Family purchased a piece of the 13-acre property of Captain Charles Adams, who migrated from New Bedford, MA, to San Francisco in the 1850s. According to the web site Found SF.org, "In the vicinity of Eighteenth and Pennsylvania, [Adams] purchased four or five square blocks, or approx. thirteen acres. He soon sold the southeast corner of the intersection to the Richards Family with the provision that a house would soon be built there. Around 1865, the Richards' home was finished...." (See Found SF.org, Potrero Hill Archives Project, "The Adams House: 300 Pennsylvania," accessed 01/10/2017.) This two-floor Italianate house has remained extant to the present. The Adams House was erected across the street on the southwest corner of 18th and Pennsylvania Streets, c. 1867.

PCAD id: 20853