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Overview

Recent California arrival Myron Hunt designed this large urban house on Russian Hill in a Swiss Chalet manner for the lawyer and real estate speculator, Livingston Jenks; a year earlier, Jenks commissioned a summer house from Hunt and Grey in Marin County, CA.

Building History

Myron H. Hunt (1868-1952) designed this large urban house for a steep site on Russian Hill for the lawyer and real estate speculator, Livingston Jenks, Sr., (1868-1918); a year earlier, Jenks commissioned a summer house from Hunt and Grey in Marin County, CA. According to historian Kevin Starr, this was Hunt's first commission in CA: "It thus not surprising that Hunt gravitated northwards to San Francisco, attracted there by his first major California commission, the Livingston Jenks house on the eastern side of Russian Hill, and the congenial circle of architects, among them Willis Polk, already at work in the Bay Area." (See Kevin Starr, Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s, [New York: Oxford University Press, 1990], p. 192.)

Demolition

The Jenks House was torn down c. 1956; an apartment building at 1000 Vallejo replaced the house in 1957.

PCAD id: 5688