2120 Washington Street<\/a> was built in 1908 for Frank P. Doe, president of the wholesale lumber firm that bore his name. <\/p>\nThe home was completed just two years after the 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed much of the city. In those years, the city\u2019s wealthiest families were rebuilding, and the industries supplying materials, like the Frank P. Doe Lumber Company, did well.<\/p>\n
High ceilings and Neoclassical details define the home’s first floor interiors.Realtor.comA living room space on the first floor.Realtor.comA private study just off the great room.Realtor.com<\/p>\n
More than a century later, the house is still one of the more substantial private homes in the neighborhood, with Stacey Caen of Sotheby’s International Realty holding the listing.<\/p>\n
The historic estate borders Lafayette Park on one of Pacific Heights\u2019 most storied blocks. Just next door is the former home of James D. Phelan, the onetime San Francisco mayor and U.S. senator. The Adolph Spreckels Mansion is down the street. <\/p>\n
According to the listing, this is the first sale in nearly 30 years among the five historic homes in this grouping.<\/p>\n
The house has seven bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms and 8,175 square feet of living space spread across four levels. It sits on a flat double lot\u2014a rarity in this part of the city, where steep streets and narrow parcels are the norm. <\/p>\n
The lot also provides ample outdoor space, with front and side courtyards that set the house back from the sidewalk and a terraced garden framing the rear of the property.<\/p>\n
In 2011, the property went through a renovation by San Francisco-based Butler Armsden Architects. The firm left the home\u2019s original structure intact and focused on how the rooms work together, reworking the floor plan without stripping out its period character.<\/p>\n
The kitchen, which was updated in 2011 by Butler Armsden Architects.Realtor.comOne of seven bedrooms inside the home.Realtor.comA custom soaking tub in the master bath.Realtor.com<\/p>\n
The main level is arranged for entertaining, with multiple formal and informal living spaces defined by neoclassical details and high ceilings. At the center of the floor, a great room with floor-to-ceiling windows showcases views of the bay.<\/p>\n
The floor above has two bedrooms with private baths, one overlooking Lafayette Park and the other facing the water, plus a third bedroom with its own half bath. The primary suite includes a custom soaking tub and walk-in closet storage.<\/p>\n
On the top floor, a playful chartreuse-green lounge comes with views of the Golden Gate Bridge. Three more bedrooms, one with a private bath, round out the level. The garden level adds two more bedrooms, each with its own bathroom.<\/p>\n
The home is a few blocks from the shops and restaurants along Fillmore Street.<\/p>\n
Grand homes from this era rarely come up for sale, especially ones that have maintained their original footprint. Doe House offers just that, along with an update from one of the city\u2019s top architects.<\/p>\n
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Larissa Runkle is a seasoned real estate writer, lifestyle journalist, and marketing strategist with over a decade of experience and 2,000+ published articles. Her work covering housing, personal finance, and lifestyle has appeared in major publications like Bankrate, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, and New York Post. In 2023, she launched a boutique copywriting studio to partner with land developers and top brokerages, creating strategic content that builds lasting brand authority. When she isn\u2019t writing, Larissa enjoys the outdoors from her home in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, where she lives with her husband, son, and German shepherd, Yoko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gilded Age mansion originally built for one of San Francisco\u2019s timber barons has come to market in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[191743,64337,141286,72646,45291,101,105063,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-491917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-gilded-age","tag-historic-homes","tag-historical-remodel","tag-luxury-homes","tag-pacific-heights","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-ca","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}