Merced Manor, San Francisco

Merced Manor is a neighborhood in southwestern San Francisco, between Stern Grove and Lake Merced. It is bordered by 19th Avenue to the east, Sloat Boulevard to the north, 26th Avenue to the west and Eucalyptus Drive to the south.

Merced Manor
Neighborhood
Nickname(s):  The White City
Merced Manor Location within San Francisco
Coordinates: 37.73°N 122.48°W / 37.73; -122.48
Country	United States
State	California
City-county	San Francisco
Government
• Supervisor	Norman Yee
• Assemblymember	Phil Ting (D)[1]
• State senator	Scott Wiener (D)[1]
• U. S. rep.	Nancy Pelosi (D)[2]
Population
• Total	3,676
Time zone	UTC-8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP codes	94132
Area codes	415/628

Location

Lowell High School and Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School are located on Eucalyptus Drive, and the Merced Manor reservoir is on Sloat between 22nd and 23rd Avenues. The Stonestown Galleria shopping mall and San Francisco State University are both on 19th Avenue to the south. The Lakeshore Plaza shopping area lies westwards between Everglade Drive and Clearfield Drive.[3] Eastwards down Ocean Avenue are various small stores, including a Walgreens which was once Manor Market.[4] The San Francisco Scottish Rite Masonic Center and West Portal Lutheran Church and School lie diagonal from the northeast corner near the Stern Grove entrance.

History

1863 Pacific Mining Journal Map, overlayed with northern property owners brought down to view. Black zigzag is the Spring Valley Water Company pipe which determined later roads.

1869 map (never built "Lakeville" construction  plan) of the area overlayed with the current one

Prehistory to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Today's San Francisco has been inhabited since about 3000 BC.[5] The area around Merced Manor was once sand dunes (caused by the nearby ocean and wind trajectory) occupied by the Yelamu tribelet of the Ohlone people with a village Ompuromo located just southwest of Lake Merced. An overland Spanish exploration party, led by Don Gaspar de Portolá, arrived on November 2, 1769, the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay. Seven years later, on March 28, 1776, the Spanish established the Presidio of San Francisco, followed by explorer Juan Bautista de Anza's Mission San Francisco de Asís.[6]

Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the area became part of Mexico's Alta California. Under Mexican rule, the mission system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. The land of Merced Manor was incorporated into the Rancho Laguna de la Merced, a one-half-square-league territory which, in 1835, was granted to José Antonio Galindo, corporal in El Presidio Real de San Francisco militia in Alta California. Galindo did little to develop the land and sold it in 1837 to Francisco de Haro (1792-1849). Ironically, in 1838, De Haro (as Alcalde) arrested Galindo for the murder of José Doroteo Peralta (1810-1838), son of Pedro Peralta.[7]

With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. However, at this time settlers were welcomed and squatted throughout the area. In 1850, the Justice of the Peace for Mission Delores issued a decree allowing certain settlers of San Francisco (generally of the 11th ward south of Lawton Street) to legally parcel the land up among themselves (naming Alfred A Green, E. Goula Buffins, Thomas Green, Alfred Martin, Daniel Green, Robert Green, Charles McGran, Anthony Brown, William Humphreys, Jonah Albert-July, Thomas McCambridge, William Kunez, Clement Humphreys, John H Tillertson, Clement B Ellis, and Joseph Sutter).[8] Contrarily, as required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for the Rancho by De Haro's family was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[9] though by this time the entirety of today's Merced Manor was primarily owned by the Greene brothers (which led to later legal battles) .

The Greene Family

Coming from New Brunswick, Canada (sometimes claiming Maine or other states/dates), the Greene family supposedly consisted of 7 brothers. The most prominent early settler was Alfred Augustus Greene (c. 1827-1899), a miner and farmer who's named in the 1850 document (paying $84) and listed as the head of household in the 1852 census.[10] In the census, in addition to his wife and son, two younger brothers are named: Robert Greene and William Henry Greene (c. 1830-1905). An 1863 map of the area by the Pacific Mining Journal[11] illustrates that, at that point, Merced Manor from 24th Avenue westwards was seemingly owned by Alfred (called Rancho Laguna Puerca) and the rest from 24th Avenue eastwards by William. The map also shows scattered properties of brother Daniel L Green and a distant property near the ocean to the west owned by brother George M Green.

According to William's son George, his "father came here in '47, staked off the land, and worked it",[12] converting it from sand dunes into a ranch for potatoes and barley. William's residence in voter registration records is commonly recorded as "Ocean House", flat/apartment #11. Built in 1854 by proprietor Joseph William Leavitt (c.1830-1866),[13] the same year Charles Brown's nearby "Lake House" was leased by P.L. White, the building was a glamorous and notorious housing and vacation destination in the city, attracting different shades of characters. It was located slightly below the border of the two properties on Ocean House Road (today Eucalyptus Drive, split from Ocean Avenue). Burned down in the early 1880s, the site is now occupied by Lowell High School and the Rolph Nicol Jr Playground. In 1859, David C. Broderick and David S. Terry met at the Lake House to choose the location for their famous duel.

In 1856, Alfred was abducted from his bed by the Vigilance Committee after threatening certain wealthy San Franciscans that he could invalidate their land claims with his Delores papers. He was released and found his home ransacked and family traumatized. He left for a short while to Mexico and stayed in Santa Barbara in 1860, switching careers from farming to law, then soon returning to San Francisco. In 1865, he divided the lower half of his ranch to open the Ocean Race Course for horse-racing to complement the success of Ocean House.

In the 1860s, Irish butcher-turned-real-estate-capitalist David Mahoney (c.1820-)[14] bought the Rancho Laguna de La Merced and had another survey made. He sought to extend his property north to more desirable land including that owned by the Greene's. Major litigation followed. There was a conflict at the Ocean House in 1868 which resulted in several arrests.[15] That year, the Spring Valley Water Company bought the water rights for Lake Merced. Mahoney took the Greene's to the US District Court over the land but lost. In 1871, Mahoney appealed to US Supreme Court[16] over the land which ruled in his favor. The family responded by hiring a lawyer. In addition, George (later having a "drooping white mustache") further recounted: "We built a fort, just east of where the Trocadero Inn is now, and we lined it with metal. We stood watch day and night, and Dad hired the best Indian fighter in the West. Then we planted the fence around the land with sticks of dynamite—and let 'em come, we said." When William was away, a Federal Marshall brought 22 men to the property with an order of eviction and his wife Susannah barricaded the house and threatened to pour boiling water on them. The family held in for three months and managed to stay. In 1872, the 1852 claim for Rancho Laguna de la Merced was finally patented to the surviving De Haro children - Josefa de Haro Guerrero Denniston, Rosalia de Haro Andrews Brown, Natividad de Haro Castro Tissot, and Carlotta de Haro Denniston.[17] In 1873,[12] William's oldest son George William Greene (1854-1934) planted exotic Australian eucalyptus around the property which remains today in Stern Grove. The father and son as horticulturalists also wooded the Presidio and Sutro Forest. In 1877, the Spring Valley Water Company started buying the surrounding watershed and at the same time William's wife Susannah M Waterbury died from phthisis around the age of 46, leaving him with at least 5 children. In 1887, a Special Act of Congress was passed guaranteeing the Greene's their homestead.

In the 1890s, the Spring Valley Water Company began to sell off its landholdings around the lake.[18] In 1892, William brought over a wooden house from Maine or Canada by ship around the horn of South America to the grove which became called the Trocadero Inn, dubbed "the first house built in San Francisco west of Twin Peaks", still standing in Stern Grove as a popular meeting space and wedding area. The first residents at the inn were millionaire lumberman Charles Appleton Hooper (1843-1914),[19] then Adolph Bernard Spreckels (1857-1924), then Hiram Cook who made the place an attractive Sunday breakfast area. George said, “We had a deer park, and a boating pavilion, and a beer garden, and the finest trout farm in California.”[12]

George's siblings eventually left. His father, who made money operating a mine, remarried to a Clara V about 1895 and died sometime before 1910. Meanwhile, the land was seemingly-assumed by the Spring Valley Water Company and the city of San Francisco. Due to the area's low population and distance from downtown, not much is known about damage from the 1906 earthquake other than crack development on the Lake Merced Tunnel arch and the Great Highway.[20] In 1907, politician Abe Ruef (1864-1936) was captured at the Trocadero, hiding there after accusations of corruption. In the 1910s, Sloat Boulevard and 19th Avenue (downwards) were paved with municipal rail lines leading towards St. Francis Circle,[21][22] eventually removed in the 1940s in favor of bus lines. In the 1920s, the area was rented to farmers.[23]

In the 1930s, George vocalized resistance to selling his last parcels of land in fear of urban development and damage to his trees. Around that time, the northwest 19th/Sloat corner lot (now Stern Grove entrance) and southwest 19th/Sloat lot (now annually used to host the Great Pumpkin Patch and Emerald Forest Christmas Trees)[24] were petitioned by the Spring Valley Water Company to be rezoned from residential to commercial as it planned out and sold land to be developed. This was in attempt to construct a gas station which failed to fruition after denial by the city, probably subsequently indefinitely delaying construction on the plot.[25] In 1931, Rosalie Meyer (1869-1956),[26] daughter of Marc Eugene Meyer (1842-1925) and widow of Sigmund Stern (1857-1928), purchased the grove and Trocadero house from George and donated it to the city to become a park, naming it after her late husband. George Greene eventually died in a shack somewhere on the corner (perhaps in the southeast plot) on November 3, 1934[27] as Herzig homes were completed on the east side of 20th Avenue. He was never married. His sister filled out his death information which proves his identity (commonly severely mistaken as the son of William's brother George M Greene who moved to Mexico).[28][29][30][31]

1930s House Design & Construction

Development of the neighborhood was marketed as "The White City" due to the color of the houses. Today it consists mostly of two-story residential homes or "manors" constructed from the early 1930s to early 1940s by builders and contractors such as Fernando Nelson (1860-1953),[32][33] George James Elkington (1872-1945),[34] and Arthur Jacob Herzig (1884-1962).[35] Unlike many in the Sunset district, the houses are detached from one another with alleyways in between, making for ease of transportation, deliveries (formerly milkmen), and fire prevention. They also have rear garages accessed from a shared back-road.[36]

Herzig homes were initially constructed on 21st Avenue (around the time he was called to testify as a witness for the trial of Jessie Scott Hughes' murder in 1932).[37] Main entrances tend to be on the second story and the houses were constructed from redwood framing and stucco walls, topped with ceramic shingles and furnished in cooperation with the Hale Brothers and Sterling Furniture Company. Prices started from $6750 (not adjusted for inflation).[38] Later, construction of his houses on 20th Avenue would run off a choice of these designs such as "The Devonshire", Tudor revival with a jutting rectangular bay window, and "The Priscilla", a storybook with an arched inset window and front-door turret.[39] Herzig lived in the large house on the 20th/Sloat corner.[40] Soon after, he constructed another series of houses in Pine Lake Park and then moved to San Mateo following the death of his second wife in 1940.[41][42][43]

Climate

Temperatures in Merced Manor usually range between 45.7°-85 °F. Precipitation is below average with approximately 22 inches of rain per year though weather can be overcast and humid with nighttime fog. Often September is the hottest month and January is the coldest.[44] The altitude ranges from around 140–240 ft above sea level.[45] The area falls under USDA plant hardiness zone 10b.[46]

Local Sites

Businesses

• Lakeshore Plaza
• Stonestown Galleria (Built 1952 by the Stoneson Brothers)
• Lakeside businesses on Ocean Avenue[47]
• Great Pumpkin Patch / Emerald Forest Christmas Trees (operating since the late 1990s)

Parks/Recreation

• Lake Merced
• Merced Manor Reservoir (Drinketh Temple built 1912)[48]
• Rolph Nicol Jr. Playground (Named after James Rolph Jr. (1869-1934), 30th Mayor of San Francisco & 27th Governor of California)[49]
• Sigmund Stern Grove (Formerly the Greene family ranch, composed of Australian Eucalyptus, named after philanthropist Sigmund Stern, donated to the city by his wife Rosalie Meyer in 1931, popular festival area)[50][51]
  • The Trocadero House (the "first house built in San Francisco west of Twin Peaks")

Schools

• Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School
• West Portal Lutheran School (Dedicated September 1951)
• Lowell High School (1962 relocation)
• Mercy High School
• San Francisco State University (Campus opened 1953)

Social/Religious Centers

• Lakeside Presbyterian Church[52]
• Scottish Rite Masonic Center (Opened 1963)[53]
• St Stephen's Catholic Church (Parish formed August 1950)[54]
• West Portal Lutheran Church (Groundbreaking May 27, 1947)
• Won Buddhism Meditation Temple[55]

Late Former Residents

19th Avenue

East

House	Info	Residents	Resident Photos
307/317 Sloat	March 10, 1933 (Tap 127939)[56] (Nelson) Once occupied by a small building in a large plot with a pathway built by Nelson, now empty and used for the Great Pumpkin Patch and Emerald Forest Christmas Trees. Fernando Nelson (1860-1953), prominent builder of Merced Manor. Photo taken 1915, courtesy of Glenn Koch.
2919	October 17, 1931 (Tap 124399)[56] 1931 (Nelson)	Nelson[57] William G Menary[58]
2929	1937
2933	October 19, 1931 (Tap 125942)[56] 1931 (Sethmann)	Charles Joseph Sethmann (1883-1973) locomotive engineer for steamships and the South Pacific Railroad who built his own house, wife Nellie F (1885-1962), moved to 974 Junipero Sera Blvd.[59][57][58]
2945	1938
2949	October 19, 1931 (Tap 128178)[56] 1931 (W. Sheehan)	Widow Clara E Dubourdieu-Sheehan (1867-1953)[60] son David W, daughter Clara, brother Edward Dubourdieu, possibly built by her son David[61]
2955	1937
2965	October 29, 1931 (Tap 126240)[56] 1931 (Nelson)	Mrs F M Zwart[57]
2975	1937
2979	October 21, 1931 (Tap 126241)[56] 1931 (Nelson)	P J Cadra[57][58]
2700 Ocean	(1977)
2725 Ocean	1940
3007	1941
3017	1938	A S Parlett[61]
3027	1938
3039	1939
3051	1939
3063	1939
3075	1939
3095	1940
222 Euchalyptus	1940

20th Avenue

West

House	Info	Residents	Resident Photos
401 Sloat (2901)	January 29, 1932 (Tap 126651) c. 1931 (Nelson)[62] Purchased for $10,000	Sidney H Abrams (1969-1942), insurance broker for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, wife Maydee H (1882-1966)uml[63] 1953 - Elie Martin[64]	Sidney H Abrams (1869-1942) life insurance broker and former resident. Photo taken c. 1920
2915	January 29, 1932 (Tap 126652) c. 1932-1937 (Nelson)[62] Purchased for $10,000 after 1936	August John Forsell (1892-1959), fireman, wife Jessie Estelle Elletson-Reid (1889-1983)[65] 1953 - Ernest A Hannl[64]	August John Forsell (1892-1959), fireman and former resident. Photo taken August 1924.
2921	March 15, 1933 (Tap 127942) 1933 (G.J. Elkington)[66] Purchased for $7,500 George James Elkington (1872-1945), builder of Merced Manor.	Harry William Porte (1898-1974), Mergenthaler Linotype Company manager & Porte Publishing, wife Ruth Victoria Runyan (1898-1949), daughter Jane, news worker, maid Melinda E. Ferguson-Manning-Larrett (1869-1950)[67] 1953 - John T Scully[64] 1936[68]
2929 c. October 1934	November 14, 1933 (Tap 128593) 1934 (Designed by Sidney Aaron Colton (1897-1970),[69] built by Elkington, sold by Chester Riddock MacPhee (1905-1995),[70] old mission / Spanish bungalow, burnt wood, stucco)[66] Purchased for $9,000 Chester Riddock MacPhee (1905-1995), real estate agent of Merced Manor.	Alfred Arthur Moore (1880-1957), assistant secretary and clerk at Welch & Co, wife Agatha Maria De Ridder (1901-1985), son from first marriage Allan Arthur Moore (c. 1911-),[71] stepdaughter Bernice Agatha Blank (1925-),[72] tenant Frithjof Lawrence Torstensen (1913-), seaman for merchants[73][74] 1936[68] 1953[64]
2935 c. November 1933	August 5, 1933 (Tap 128353) 1933 (A.J. Herzig, version of "The Priscilla")[66] Purchased by Schwartz for $8,000	Raymond M Hurley (1904-1963), salesman for Holeproof Hosiery Company, wife Helen A (1908-1993)[68][75][76] Later - Harold R Goulden 1940[77] Later - Alexander Schwartz (1899-1975), self-employed dentist, wife Ethel Shain (1901-1991), factory publisher, maid Annie Celinda Helmet-Vanderbilt (1875-1958), widow[78] 1953[64]
2939	August 5, 1933 (Tap 128352) 1933 (Herzig, version of "The Devonshire")[66] Purchased for $8,000	Ezekiel Moses Battat (1887-1970), importer/exporter of general merchandise, wife Sally "Saul" Namoordy (1897-1990), 8 children[79] 1936[68] 1953[64]	Ezekiel Moses Battat (1887-1970), importer/exporter and former resident. Photo taken c. 1934.
2945	August 5, 1933 (Tap 128351) 1933 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $7,000	Ezra Moses Battat (1888-1982), self-employed leather importer, wife Fanny Scheuer (1902-1985), 3 sons, brother-in-law Julius Scheuer (1903-1986), salesman at a linen store, mother-in-law Zippora Rau-Scheuer (1877-1952)[80] 1936[68] 1953[64]	Ezra Moses Battat (1888-1982), leather importer and former resident. Photo taken c. 1932 Fanny Scheuer-Battat (1902-1985), wife of Ezra and former resident. Photo taken c. 1932 Julius Scheuer (1903-1986), salesman and former resident. Photo taken c. 1938
2955	August 5, 1933 (Tap 128350) 1933 (Herzig, version of "The Devonshire")[66] Purchased for $10,000	Robert Dean Scholes (1902-1945),[68] lawyer who died as a major in Japan in WWII, mother Sadie Adelia Snelling-Scholes-Swank (1881-1962), widow, aunt Cora E Snelling-Schaw-Frye (c. 1879-), apartment manager[81] 1953[64]
2959 c. November 1933	August 5, 1933 (Tap 128349) 1933 (Herzig, "Priscilla" model home)[66] Purchased by Cokeley for $5,650	Arthur Ogden Narveson (1882-1967), salesman of surgical appliances and later an MFT agent, wife Anna S (1885-1968)[82][68] Later - John H Cokeley (1907-1967), insurance broker & realtor, wife Ina M Andrews (1908-2005), schoolteacher, mother-in-law Nellie Herzog-Andrews (1875-1963)[83] 1953[64]	Arthur Ogden Narveson (1882-1967), salesman of surgical appliances and former resident. Photo taken c. 1919. Anna S (1885-1988), wife of Narveson and former resident. Photo taken c. 1919. Ina M Andrews-Cokeley (1908-2005), schoolteacher and former resident.
2965	August 5, 1933 (Tap 128348) 1933 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $8,000	Edward Sassoon (1896-1969), merchant of the Sassoon family and Fidelity Trading Company, wife Flora Meyer Bar (1902-2003), 3 children including ballerina Janet[84][85] 1936[68] 1953[64]	Edward Sassoon (1896-1969), merchant and former resident. Photo taken c. 1944
2975	August 5, 1933 (Tap 128347) 1933 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $10,000	Howard Russell Bates (1873-1963), widower and shop foreman of a streetcar company[86] 1936[68] H E Woodring 1940[77] 1953 - Ralph E McElwee[64]
2979 c. September 1933	August 5, 1933 (Tap 128346) 1933 (Herzig, "Devonshire" second model home of the design)[66] Purchased for $7,000	Dr. Martin Orion Squires DDS (1893-1973), dental office manager, wife Maude Ellen Davis-Howard-Ruegg (1891-1972)[87] 1936[68] 1953 - Ramsey Naify[64]	Dr. Martin Orion Squires DDS (1893-1973), dentist and former resident.
2981	August 5, 1933 (Tap 128345) 1933 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $6,000	Clyde Joseph Williams (1884-1969), US Army soldier, wife Elsie, switch board operator at a business office[88][68] 1953[64]
2995	1937 Purchased for $8,000	George Bertram Davies (1884-1961), druggist (medicine), wife Grace M McElfresh (1884-1981)[89] H J Davies 1940[77] 1953 - Geo Pearson[64]
2800 Ocean	1938 Purchased for $8,750	Jack Sam Harris (1881-1964), maker of wholesale ladies' dresses at 154 Sutter, wife Rose Tishler (1881-1975), son Harold Milton (1907-1993), orchestra musician[90] Later owner - Laura May Redding-Sponogle (1870-1956), widow[91][92] 1953[93]
2801 Ocean	1938 Purchased for $16,000	Joseph J [Giuseppe] Onorato (1896-1959), merchant of retail meat, wife Jeannette Gemma Giannini (1897-1978), 3 children[94] 1953[93]	Joseph J Onorato (1896-1959), merchant of retail meat and former resident. Photo taken c. 1942
3007	1938 Purchased for $13,000	C S McGovern 1940[77] John Brewster Bryan (c.1883-1953) legacy employee of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and president of the Pacific American Shipowners Association, wife Mary Agnes Kilgallon (1893-1976), 2 children.[95] 1953[64]
3015	1936 Purchased for $9,500	Gussie Silbersten-Tobias (1885-1945), divorcee, daughter Marjorie Helen [Margaret] Tobias (1906-2001), principal of Vista Mar Elementary School later named after her posthumously[96] 1953[64]
3021	1938 Purchased for $10,000	William [Wilhelm] Buhlmann (1879-1959), letter carrier, wife Rose Gould(?) (1886-1959)[97] 1953[64]
3029	1938	From 1951 - John Charles Umland (1907-1977), clerk for New Sanitary Meat Market, wife Maurine Ahlstrom (1911-2007), children including Leslie Jane (1948-1982)[98][99] 1953[64]
3035	1938	From 1945 - Joseph Charles Sand (1899-1982), contractual plumber of Joseph C Sand Co., wife Estella Frances (1905-1979), 2 sons[100][101] 1953[64]
3043	1938 Purchased for $10,500	Ralph Carl [Rudolph] Stopyra (1887-1971), building construction carpenter, wife Edna Mae Leathers (1901-1979)[102] 1953 - Joseph A Narcisso[64]
3049	1938 Purchased for $9,850	Tristram Walker Sheldon (1861-1941), osteopathic surgeon, second wife Mary Edgarton Briggs (1866-1942)[103] 1953 - Minnie D Dunker[64]
3057	1938 Purchased for $10,000	Henry Alexander [Heinrich] Haberman Sr. (1902-1988) owner of the Parkside Garage, second wife Lila Green, daughter Darleen.[104] 1953 - John B Nuttman[64]	Henry Alexander Haberman Sr. (1902-1988) owner of the Parkside Garage and former resident.
3063	1938 Purchased for $11,500	Fredrick James Williams (1894-1962), insurance agent, sister Winifred Williams (1886-1967), retail department store saleslady, brother Thomas Haydn Williams (1898-1974), wholesale trust broker, brother Enoch Tudor Williams (1891-1946), religious family from Wales and Pennsylvania[105] 1953 - Gertrude M White[64]
3071	1941	From 1951 - Alfred August Thomas (1903-1984), insurance broker of Alfred A Thomas & Co., wife Helen, son Alfred[106][107] 1953[64]
3077	1941	From 1942 - Mary E Duncing (1902-1990), sten., sister Alice M (1904-1968), employee at Dudley Stone School, sister Ethel E (1905-1965), principal of Pacific Heights School[108][109][110] 1953[64]
3085	1940	From 1942 - Arnold A Davis (1907-1992), salesman for W.N. Moore & Co. Dry Goods, wife Margaret K Strobel (1913-1991), 2 children[111][112] 1953[64]
300 Eucalyptus	1940	From 1943 - Fred Joseph Muzio (1899-1985), poultryman of the California Poultry Company, wife Tackla Starr (1902-1982), 3 daughters[113][114] 1953[115]

East

20th Avenue San Francisco looking southeast from Sloat Boulevard c. November 1935

House	Info	Residents	Resident Photos
345 Sloat c. November 1935	May 15, 1934 (Tap 128890) 1935 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $12,000	Arthur Jacob Herzig (1884-1962), builder, & wife Mary A McDonough (1880-1940)[40][116]	Arthur Jacob Herzig (1884-1962) & Mary A McDonough (1880-1940) posing for a real estate advertisement in Pine Lake Park
2910 c. November 1935	May 15, 1934 (Tap 128891) 1935 (Herzig, version of "The Devonshire", Tudor revival, stucco walls, sandstone)[66] Purchased March 1936 by Poggi for $7,650	Angelo John Poggi (c. 1901-1993), American Can worker, & wife Muriel Collins (1904-1970), teacher at Portola Junior High (later MLK Jr Middle school) and James Denman Middle School.[117][118] 1936[68] Later owners - Cyril Richard Gilfether (1912-2000), pharmacist, wife Cleo Maybelle Olson (1919-2000), son Richard Emmet Gilfether (1942-1975), 2 daughters[119] 1953[64]	Muriel Collins-Poggi (1904-1970), schoolteacher and former resident. Photo taken June 1934
2918 c. November 1935	June 16, 1934 (Tap 128892) 1935 (Herzig)[66] Purchased later by Pappas for $10,000	Roger M Crétaux (1888-1961), chef at New York's Roosevelt Hotel, wife Ruth Perrenow (1891-1963), daughter Ruth E[120][68] Later owners - James Pappas (1897-1969), nursery owner, wife Julia Demopoulos (c. 1902-1989), 5 children, not in registry[121] 1953[64]	Roger M Crétaux (1888-1961), hotel chef and former resident. Photo taken c. June 1930.
2924 c. November 1935	June 16, 1934 (Tap 128893) 1932 (Herzig)[66] Purchased by McIntosh for $8,500	Irvin Scott McCulloch Sr (1893-1955), owner of McCulloch Auto Supply Company, wife Elizabeth Dovin (1894-1984), son Irvin Scott Jr (1916-1987), daughter Betty Marian (1919-1986), son Robert James (1924-1991)[122][123][68][77] Later owners - George Raymond McIntosh (1897-1983), sales manager for road machine manufacturers, wife Mollie H (Welsh?) (1895-1975), daughter Patricia[124] 1953 - Bert F Hamburger[64]	Irvin Scott McCulloch Sr (1893-1955), owner of McCulloch Auto Supply Company and former resident. Elizabeth Dovin-McCulloch (1894-1984), former resident.
2930 c. November 1935	June 16, 1934 (Tap 128894) 1934 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $10,000	Alfred T Fortier (1908-1976), stock trader & steel corporation salesman, wife Helen M Brennan (1910-1995), sister-in-law Mirian Brennan-Gaspar(?), finance corporation worker[125] 1953 - Alex Benolt[64]
2938 c. November 1935	June 16, 1934 (Tap 128895) 1934 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $8,000	Alfred Charles Aurich (1901-1992), attorney and assistant to US Attorney General Tom C. Clark,[126] wife Helen K Oppenheim, daughters Shirley Marie (1926-2003) & Carol Frances[127] 1936[68] 1953 - Robert D Dawson[64]
2946 c. February 1935	June 16, 1934 (Tap 128896) 1934 (Herzig)[66] Purchased by Schwartz for $9,000	Christian Alwyn Weske (1901-1991), owner of the California Drayage Company, president of Truck Sales and Service Co. in Reno, and decorated Navy-man, second wife Ramona Felecia England (1904-1977), son William Cris Weske (1927-1998)[128][129][130][68] Later owners - Philip P. Schwartz (c. 1903-1964), travelling salesman, wife Rebecca S Hirsch (1901-1997), 3 daughters, servant Rose Allen (c.1922-)[131] 1953[64]	Christian Alwyn Weske (1901-1991), manager, Navy-man, and former resident. Photo taken 1937.
2952 c. January 1935	June 16, 1934 (Tap 128897) 1934 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $9,000	Royal Thomas Bowman (1884-1942), retired fireman, wife Silvina Arvila Leal (c. 1883-1970)[132][133] 1936[68] 1953 - Lawrence C Compagno[64]
2960 c. October 1934	June 16, 1934 (Tap 128898) 1934 (Herzig)[66] Purchased by Sandler for $9,000	Roy Orin Hurd Sr (1888-1969), manager of Dial Radio Shop, second wife Florence E Niemann (1906-2002), 2 children[134][68][135] Later owners - Jack Sandler,[77] wife Esther (1898?), son Alex Sandler (1926?)[136] 1953 - William P Anderson[64]
2966 c. October 1934	June 16, 1934 (Tap 128899) 1934 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $8,000	James William Grace (1888-1972), superintendent of maintenance and repair for the California Highway Commission,[137] wife Theresa Louise Leonard (1886-1971)[138] 1936[68] 1953 - Frank J Sullivan Jr.[64]
2970 c. October 1934	June 16, 1934 (Tap 128900) 1934 (Herzig)[66] Purchased for $9,000	Robert Matthew Ward (1902-1976), factory salesman of spark plugs, wife Adelaide Jones (1902-1995), stepson, daughter[139] 1936[68] 1953 - Harry F Clifford[64]
2978	June 18, 1934 (Tap 128950) 1934 (Nelson)[66] Purchased for $7,500	Clay Willard Elmore (1900-1943), buyer of wholesale dried fruit, wife Lillian Vandyke (1903-1982), daughter Doris Ann (1935-2014), teacher of French[140] 1936[68] 1953[64]
2984	1938 Purchased for $7,500	George Albert Hildebrand (1878-1960), retired professional baseball player, wife Sue L (1878-1967)[141] 1953 - Robt C Combs[64]	George Albert Hildebrand (1878-1960), professional baseball player and former resident
2990	1951	Hans Nielsen (1890-1968), real estate broker for A.L. Kreuzberger & Sons, wife Anna Sofie (1890-1985)[142][143] 1953[64]
2750 Ocean	1949	Joseph Levin (c.1880-1974), owner of Jos. Levin & Sons Scrap Metals at 2225 3rd street, wife Dora Tennebaum (1890-1967), children[144][145] 1953[93]
2755 Ocean	1938 Purchased for $12,000	Crist [Crescenzo] Caruso (1899-1951), liquor store owner, wife Paula (1909-)[146] 1953[93]
3008	1938 Purchased for $10,000	Charles E Hansen (c. 1888-), bookkeeper for Hansen Hops & Malt Company in Milwaukee, wife Sophia[147] 1953 - Jeff M Freeman[64]
3014 (3016)	Purchased for $12,500 (Later registered as built in 2008)	Philip Jay Fink [Finkelstein] (1906-1989), assistant wholesale manager, wife Betty Weintraub (1905-1982), 2 sons, sister-in-law Ida Weintraub-Ginsberg (1903-1971), retail saleswoman, sister-in-law Hizda [Hilda] Wayne [Weintraub], retail saleswoman, sister-in-law Irene Weintraub, government typist[148] 1953[64]
3020	1938 Purchased for $12,000	Harry Scott (1891-1981), railroad locomotive engineer, wife Lillian M (1895-1976), 2 daughters[149] 1953 - Rodney R Simons[64]
3028	1940	From 1943 - Harold Hiram Bernard (1903-1978), salesman of Langendorf and Oroweat Baking Company, wife Henrietta Jane Marzolf (1902-1993), office secretary of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company[150][151] 1953[64]
3036	1940	From 1944 - William Nicholas Dowdall (1906-1983), salesman of Gilmore Steele & Supply Company, wife Gertrude Marie Bacigalupi (2014-2019), retail hat model, 3 children[152][153] 1953[64]
3044	1940	From 1941 - James [Dimitrios Philip] Gerojohn [Anastassiou] (1891-1960), salesman of the United Coffee Corp., wife Alice M Carson (1884-1953), schoolteacher[154][155] 1953[64]
3052	1940	From 1941 - Thomas Lorenzen (1907-1984), department manager at Wells Fargo, wife Laura E Devitt (1905-1994), bank secretary[156][157] 1953[64]
3060	1940 Purchased for $8,250	James Brackett (1899-1986), clerk for the public utilities commission, wife Dorothy Wilma Kral-Melzer (1904-1995), mother-in-law Carolina Budar-Kral-McCready (1879-1956)[158] 1953 - John J Borger[64]
3068	1940	From 1953 - Amelia K (married) Dalton (c.1903-), employee of the Desmond Hotel[64][159]
Empty/Yard
3090	Purchased for $15,000	Fred [Номеровский] Nemer (1892-1944), merchant for ready-to-wear clothes, second wife Marie, son from first marriage Edward, housekeeper Sarah Ann Wilson-McCoy (1878-1960), widow they met in Los Angeles[160] 1953 - William Cohen[64]

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