If it was originally a “live above the store” building, then it will have a separate outside entrance and stairway for your second-floor apartment, to the side of the restaurant’s front door. If it looks like there was originally one outside entrance door, a small foyer, and then a stairway going upstairs to an apartment and another entry door into a downstairs apartment, then it was probably originally a duplex.
Generally you can look at the staircases. The first thing to figure out is whether your house was originally built as an apartment building, or as a single-family house, or as a “live above the store” building.
I’ve never really heard “Edwardian” as an adjective applied to 19th century houses–it’s always “Victorian”, although “Victorian” can cover a lot of territory, from the 1840s Gothic Revival to the 1900 Queen Anne. However, most people simply use “Victorian” to mean those Painted Lady-type houses, with all the gingerbread and bay windows. Generally speaking, the houses in the Haight were built in the early 1900s, which makes them technically “Edwardian”. You live in a famous district for big old houses, so I will bet you a nickel that your local public library will have literally shelf after shelf of books on your kind of house.Īlso, Dover Books has a nice selection of reprints covering authentic house plans from the 19th century. You’ll have to do like I did and go down to the library and look at actual books in the “architecture” section. This is one of my hobbies, too, and you’re right, there’s nothing on the Web covering this. We take up the whole second floor, downstairs is a restaurant.Īnyone know of any on-line resources which would have floor plans or any other info on what this place might have looked like a four or five decades ago ? All my google search turned up was a bunch of bed-and-breakfast outfits or simply articles concerning Victorians in the San Francisco area but nothing specific about historical floor plans. The back room has a proper door from the hallway but 2’ away is a swinging door into the Kitchen. It also has what looks like a gas and water pipe which are now sealed off. There is a seperate door a few feet away from that leading into the living room as well. We have French doors from one bedroom leading the living room. All the roommates are perplexed over how the place was originally laid out. I suspect my apartment was once Edwardian. I’m having trouble finding the difference. in San Francisco are a mixture of Victorian and Edwardian. I have been told that the houses along Haight St.
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