{"nrhp_refnum":"73000441","name":"House at 1239-1245 Scott Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1239-1245 Scott St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.77226599100004,"lon":-122.43778428599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-03-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of two-story Italianate Victorian two-family dwellings joined by a party wall, originally at 1356-62 Scott Street in San Francisco's Western Addition and later moved to 1239-1245 Scott Street. Utility records date the building to 1882.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the buildings as fine, well-detailed examples of Italianate Victorian architecture that survived the 1906 earthquake and fire. Redevelopment zoning required the buildings to be demolished or moved, so they were relocated for rehabilitation beside a row of existing Victorians.","narrative":"Two joined Italianate Victorian houses, each a two-family dwelling, were built in 1882 at 1356-62 Scott Street in San Francisco's Western Addition. Water Department records show the connection date, and the owner was John J. Dowling, a contractor who lived nearby and may have built them himself. Tiered, angled bay windows rise from the ground to the roof cornice, with arched windows, bracketed cornices, small floral keystone ornaments and fluted colonnettes between the windows. The houses survived the 1906 earthquake and fire but later passed through absentee landlords and deteriorated. After the redevelopment agency bought them in 1969, zoning in the project area meant they had to be demolished or moved. Plans called for cutting the wide structure apart and relocating it one block away, next to a row of existing Victorians, as one of eight buildings moved for rehabilitation. A later state letter records the new address as 1239-45 Scott Street.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1882)","architect_builder":"Built for John J. Dowling, a contractor, who may have built it himself","architectural_style":"Italianate Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as deteriorated and unoccupied, owned by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, and slated to be moved and rehabilitated; a later letter confirms the move to 1239-45 Scott Street.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.080136-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/73000441.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000441/b5ca67dc84-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000441/b5ca67dc84-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1239-1245_Scott_St_(San_Francisco,_California).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1239-1245_Scott_St_(San_Francisco,_California).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861161","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133478506"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/house-at-1239-1245-scott-street-73000441/"}