765 Vermont Street

San Francisco, Historic Resources Evaluation [HRE] (2017)

The residence at 765 Vermont Street in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood was completed in 1929 in a Mediterranean Revival style of architecture, and is one of many similar homes built in the late 1920s near the peak of Potrero Hill. During the first half of the Twentieth Century, the area was once home to San Francisco’s Slovenian community, an ethnic enclave with its own taverns, a community center, and a benefit society for recent Slovenian immigrants, many of whom worked in the industrial areas along the Central Waterfront at the base of Potrero Hill. As the home is proposed to be expanded with a third-floor addition and various interior renovations, Brewster Historic Preservation was hired by John Lum Architects on behalf of the homeowner to prepare the HRE report to assist the San Francisco Planning Department in determining the home’s potential historic significance. After detailed archival research, as well as a pedestrian survey of the home and those on the subject block, home’s significance was evaluated by applying CRHR criteria 1-4. The firm also reviewed the architectural character and qualities of the buildings on the project block to assist Planning in determining whether the subject property would be a contributor to a potential historic district. Brewster Historic Preservation recommended that the home did not meet the criteria for listing in the CRHR, nor did the area represent a concentration of historically significant properties.