'There's been a lot of curiosity about this house.'
An interior view of 806 47th Avenue, in the Outer Richmond near Ocean Beach.An interior view of 806 47th Avenue, in the Outer Richmond near Ocean Beach.A view of the kitchen inside 806 47th Avenue, in the Outer Richmond near Ocean Beach.Some of the newly remodeled rooms inside 806 47th Ave.
“There’s been a lot of curiosity about this house,” real estate agent Liz Scheidl tells me as I follow her up a speckled staircase to the front door of the home, which is constructed with old-growth California redwood. “Now that it’s open every weekend to show, many, many people are telling me they’ve always wanted to see the inside of this house, people who are interested in coming to see what it looks like.”Scheidl shows me around the, which is on the market for roughly $1.
The house originally served as the keeper’s quarters — a modest government-allocated residence where the head of the station ate and slept after leading the crew on miles of beach patrol and dusk-to-dawn rescue missions. When I find a forgotten seashell on a shelf in one of the rooms upstairs, I can’t help but imagine him shuffling in late at night, exhausted from hours of battling the unrelenting ocean current.
Following its inception, the Golden Gate Park lifesaving station was lauded as “the most perfect example of a life-saving station in America,” according to an 1886 article published in the Examiner, though a few others dotted the coast near San Francisco Zoo, Point Bonita and Baker Beach, and they often coordinated rescue efforts.
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