{"nrhp_refnum":"76000520","name":"Myrtle Street Flats","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"234--248 Myrtle St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.78553041300006,"lon":-122.42235233299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjacent two-story frame apartment buildings at 234-248 Myrtle Street in San Francisco, each holding four dwelling units, attached to the rear of the Goodman Building at 1117 Geary Street. The Goodman Building's post-1906 earthquake expansion included eight apartments fronting on Myrtle Street.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the flats have an unusual design, with entrance stairs set at about a 45-degree angle to the sidewalk, which the San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board president called unique in the city. They are also described as part of the only surviving example in this part of San Francisco of post-earthquake development along Van Ness Avenue. The flats are physically tied to the Goodman Building and are said to have more design integrity than it.","narrative":"Two matching two-story frame apartment buildings at 234-248 Myrtle Street in San Francisco, each with four dwelling units, make up the Myrtle Street Flats. They were built after the 1906 earthquake, when Abraham Goodman enlarged the neighboring Emeric Building on Geary Street and added eight apartments facing Myrtle Street. Each facade has four evenly spaced bay windows on the upper floor, and the entrance stairs below the center bays are angled about 45 degrees to the sidewalk, a feature a local landmarks board leader described as found in no other San Francisco building. The flats share a foundation and a roof connection with the Goodman Building, and a single wall separates them. The nomination presents them as a rare surviving example of the housing and commercial building that followed the fire, when Van Ness Avenue became the city's new commercial center. They were described as unoccupied at the time of listing.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked private ownership and unoccupied; owned by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, with demolition proposed and a condemnation notice issued in related papers.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.159412-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/76000520.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000520/dfdb5b2b56-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000520/dfdb5b2b56-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myrtle_Street_Flats_(San_Francisco).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myrtle_Street_Flats_(San_Francisco).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861218","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133480532"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/myrtle-street-flats-76000520/"}