{"nrhp_refnum":"84001184","name":"Chambord Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1298 Sacramento St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.792518667000024,"lon":-122.41389320999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story Beaux Arts apartment building at 1298 Sacramento Street on Nob Hill, San Francisco, built in 1921 and designed by architect James Francis Dunn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is architecturally significant for its unusual appearance, in which Beaux Arts details are laid over a highly sculptural form with billowing balconies. It is so distinctive in San Francisco that it has often been wrongly attributed to Antonio Gaudi. It also belongs to a cluster of Beaux Arts influenced luxury apartment buildings on the 1200 block of Sacramento Street.","narrative":"Perched near the crest of Nob Hill in San Francisco, this five-story apartment building at 1298 Sacramento Street was completed in 1921 to designs by architect James Francis Dunn. Its tan exterior is often compared to a wedding cake, with billowing poured concrete balconies that follow the bulging oval living rooms inside, and Beaux Arts ornamentation such as balustrades, floral detail and classical columns. The design is so unusual locally that it has frequently been credited to Antonio Gaudi, though Dunn was the designer. It is one of several luxury apartment houses built in the area after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and it sits within a cluster of Beaux Arts influenced buildings on the 1200 block of Sacramento Street. Original ornament removed in the 1960s was re-created during a 1982-1983 restoration, which also restored the fifth floor to a single-unit plan. The building holds nine apartments and was listed for its architectural distinction.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1921)","architect_builder":"James Francis Dunn","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in excellent condition; restored in 1982-1983 following the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.220746-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/84001184.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001184/df502c509e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001184/df502c509e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chambord_Apartments_(San_Francisco).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:Chambord_Apartments_(San_Francisco).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861073","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambord_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133500731"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/chambord-apartments-84001184/"}