Here is one story of a historical house in San Francisco. It is a 611-square-foot home. And it recently hit the market with $898,000.
This pretty little house has just one bathroom and a bedroom and was built in 1907. Reportedly, it is one of the earthquake shacks built around 1907 and is one of the original knees. After the great earthquake back in 1906, many earthquake shacks were built for the refugees who lost their homes in the earthquake.
This city built almost 5300 rent-to-own cottages for families who needed housing. They had to payoff the new home and were required to move the cottages away later from the refugee camp to the other part of the city.
However, not a lot of these earthquake shacks still live to see the light of the 21st century. However, few of those dwellings still exist, and the one in this article is one of the few that remain.
“Originally, it was down in the Glen Park valley and moved up to Congo Street sometime when building [after the fire] started up again,”
says listing agent Paul J. Andreini.
“No documentation exists, and it may be folklore, but that’s what [the seller] told me.”
Mr.G, as Andreini refers to the seller, had bought the house back in 1959. When he bought the house, it was for $800, and he was using the house as a rental space. This petite beauty is still one of the prettiest houses, with refinished hardwood floors, a basement laundry room, and an adjacent yard.
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