For Sale: San Fran’s Best Known Victorian

The Jane Report 2-2-10

SF Real Estate 1/31/2010 Digital Edition

“Full House” Victorian on Sale for $4 Million

San Francisco, CA – February 1, 2010 – One of the iconic “Painted Ladies” is now on the market. The elegant and historic Shannon-Kavanaugh House is the anchor home on San Francisco’s famous “Postcard Row” of picture-perfect Victorian mansions. Well-known as the home where the 80’s sitcom “Full House” was filmed, 722 Steiner is a landmark easily identified worldwide. Fittingly, Bonnie Spindler, the Victorian Specialist and number one agent citywide for Alamo Square, is the listing agent. Spindler is also Zephyr Real Estate’s All-Time Top Residential Sales Agent.

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Restoring a grand old home is always fraught with difficulties – not the least of which is dealing with all the neighbors, city officials and even perfect strangers who inevitably will weigh in on how the refurbishment should be approached.

But when Alan Sagatelyan and his wife, Maryam Monsef, first set eyes on 924 Grove St. in San Francisco’s Alamo Square neighborhood, one thing was clear: If the facade bore testimony to the embellishments popular with Richardsonian architects at the turn of the century, there wouldn’t be much left to preserve inside the 5,100-square-foot house.

“An elderly lady lived here with six cats and five dogs,” Sagatelyan says, describing the state of the stately home when they discovered it in 2005. “There were a number of illegal apartments, five kitchens, a strange platform stage in one area and lots of staircases. The one thing the interiors lacked completely was architectural details.”

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