{"nrhp_refnum":"79000534","name":"Mish House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1153 Oak St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.77280729800003,"lon":-122.43789373099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame Victorian single-family house at 1153 Oak Street in San Francisco, built in 1885 at the corner of Oak and Divisadero and moved about 150 feet across Oak Street in 1897.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its association with the Mish family, early English-born pioneers and merchants in San Francisco, and for its architectural quality. It is described as one of the finest examples of the Stick-Eastlake style in the city, notable for its emphasis on verticality, scale and playful ornament. The 1975 restoration enhanced its integrity.","narrative":"Built in 1885 as a single-family home, this Victorian house at 1153 Oak Street in San Francisco was designed by architect McDougall and Son and cost about $15,000. It originally stood on the corner of Oak and Divisadero and was moved roughly 150 feet in 1897. It was built for the Mish family. Sarah Mish ran a dressmaking and millinery business, and Phenes Mish imported dry goods and led Congregation Sherith Israel. The wood-frame house is regarded as one of the finest Stick-Eastlake buildings in the city, with tall corner pillars, slender colonnettes, squeezed pediments, sunburst and floral ornament, and fish-scale shingled mansard sections. Its grand mansard roof was lost early in the twentieth century. Converted to apartments in 1929, it deteriorated and suffered a fire in the 1950s. San Francisco designated it a city landmark in 1974, and the Preservation Group restored it in 1975. It now anchors a landscaped plaza with other historic structures.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"McDougall and Son (also given as MacDougall Brothers for the 1897 move); contractor John H. McKay for the move","architectural_style":"Stick-Eastlake, with Italianate elements and a French Second Empire mansard roof","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored in 1975 by the Preservation Group after decades of deterioration and a 1950s fire; condition listed as excellent and occupied; incorporated into the Phelps Place Historic Plaza.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.260638-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/79000534.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000534/74b88a9aef-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000534/74b88a9aef-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mish_House_(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:Mish_House_(San_Francisco).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861212","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mish_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115320151"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/mish-house-79000534/"}