For $13.9 million, half a house in San Francisco could be yours.seemingly incomplete shape and storied history
. The 9,000 square-foot, five-bedroom home features four levels, diamond-patterned lead windows, and a lofty 11.5' ceiling the blurb describes as delivering"a gravitas rarely seen in today's market." The historic Tobin House was built by one of the most important men in San Francisco at the time, Michael Henry de Young, and is one of the few surviving homes on the block from a century ago.As a young journalist from St. Louis, de Young and his brother Charles moved to San Francisco and founded what would become the San Francisco Chronicle in 1865. In the 1910s Michael purchased two lots next to each other adjacent to his ornate Victorian mansion on California Street.
Initially planned as one of two twin homes for his daughters, Constance and Helen, de Young employed famed architect Willis Polk to design what would have then been a very modern housing complex for the time.Polk's ambitious idea for the Tobin House and its neighbor was that they mirror each other and share an archway, which would form a tunnel leading to the giant mansion owned by Michael.
The left side of the tall arch didn't find its twin, leaving the striking architectural incongruity, with the half-arch slamming into the red brick wall of its modern neighbor, rendering it useless.
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