Haas-Lilienthal House Historical Marker

Table Of Content

• Benefits for National Trust Members
• SF Heritage Welcomes Woody LaBounty as President & CEO
• Outdoor Elements
• Donate Today to Help Save the Places Where Our History Happened.
• Heritage Happy Hour at Zeitgeist, May 9, 2024
• Haas Lilienthal House: Visit a Historical Victorian in San Francisco's Pacific Heights

In the end, the tour guides have to make up for the long time discussing outdoor elements. You will spend 20 to 25 minutes of the tour time outside. You might wonder whether a guided walk outside of the house is worth a tour price. On the one hand, you will get a closer look at the architectural elements of the house. The Haas-Lilienthal House is a perfect example of the Queen Anne – Eastlake style. Since the mansion is on a hill, there is a staircase that leads to the main entryway.

Benefits for National Trust Members

Three generations of the extended Haas-Lilienthal family would call 2007 Franklin Street home over eight decades. The company also re-created and replaced pieces of trim and other boards that were too far gone. Molly Lambert, a Bay Area architectural conservator, took 42 paint samples and subjected them to a detailed microscopic analysis to determine the house’s original palette.

SF Heritage Welcomes Woody LaBounty as President & CEO

Located in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood, it is the city’s only intact private home of the period that is open regularly as a museum, complete with authentic furniture and artifacts. The house is also unique as a place that conveys the role of Jewish immigrants in the development of the American West. A gala celebration for members was held at the house on September 20, 1973. Regular docent-led tours began two months later, establishing the city’s only Victorian-era house museum. The Heritage Hikes program was created in 1982, using the Haas-Lilienthal House to educate thousands of schoolchildren about life in the Gilded Age.

Outdoor Elements

The other former bedroom in the Haas-Lilienthal House has even fewer historic items. But the Haas-Lilienthal House is a notable exception from this rule. You could take a close look at the oven, tee kettle, and pots.

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Take public transport to expand your search to other areas of San Francisco. This way, you could find a better deal and visit other sights of the city. The Haas-Lilienthal House has two parlors on the ground floor right next to one another. This combination of parlors is quite unique to the house museums. You will go outside of the house as soon as the house tour begins.

VIRTUAL HOUSE TOURS

Alice Haas-Lilienthal, widow of prominent businessman Samuel Lilienthal, had died on June 30, 1972. Charles Hall Page, looking for new quarters to accommodate a staff for Heritage’s growing activity, contacted her heirs to ask about the family’s plans for Alice’s now-unoccupied house at 2007 Franklin Street. The Haas-Lilienthal House is wheelchair accessible at ground level through the Tour Entrance. The Haas-Lilienthal House survived the 1906 earthquake and fires that destroyed much of San Francisco. It survived the Great Depression that ruined many wealthy families and the 1989 earthquake that caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage in the Bay Area. In addition to a formal dining room and the utilitarian eat-in kitchen, Haas-Lilienthal House features a less formal, yet still refined, breakfast room.

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Heritage Happy Hour at Zeitgeist, May 9, 2024

You will finish your house exploration a few minutes past the hour. There are a handful of other rooms in the Haas-Lilienthal House. It is easy to imagine how conversations were flowing in this room back in the day. The lamp on the coffee table belongs to a later period. A library is the most spacious room on the second floor. There are a few distinct areas that each serve a purpose.

Haas-Lilienthal House: Last Home Of the Victorian Era

You can take a guided house tour, a private tour, or rent the house for a reception or a wedding. The Haas-Lilienthal House is open for tours on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays and most Saturdays and Sundays. According to the tour guide, the house late owners despised these panels. The museum staff uncovered these remarkable window elements during the restoration. Most of them see little value in displaying the original appliances. It has a lot of interior design elements and items for you to explore.

The new vision will also identify groundbreaking interpretive and marketing strategies to revitalize the House, increase earned income, and create a broad awareness of the important stories that it has to share. Together with the National Trust, we seek to demonstrate how the Haas-Lilienthal House can be a replicable model for bringing new life to urban historic house museums. Instead, the house museum tours start in the basement from the right side passage. The house survived the 1906 earthquake and the firestorms that followed, with the flames extinguished just a block away on Van Ness Avenue.

On top of it, all rooms on the first floor have beautiful sliding doors. This staircase is a popular spot during wedding rentals of the house and photo shoots. Your doubts will disappear as soon as you enter the house through the main entrance. You will find yourself in a beautifully decorated hallway.

The Haas-Lilienthal House is in the heart of San Francisco. But the location of this house museum is a two-edged sword. You should take a closer look at the miniature trains and cars. The craftsmanship of the restorers is yet again on full display in this house museum. Just like the doll house in the nursery, it dates back to the Victorian era. The museum staff continues restoring the railway for future visitors.

The Haas Lilienthal House is a historic beauty in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood. This Queen Anne is the only Victorian House in SF regularly open to the public for tours. This obsessive focus on detail resulted in a restored Victorian house that feels, in the rooms open to the public, as if the family has just stepped out for a stroll.

There are also countless photographs and items that belonged to the owners. You will see similar stained glass windows in the nearby master bedroom. These panels are a real highlight of the second floor of the Haas-Lilienthal House.

Since 1973, it has been Heritage’s headquarters and an icon of San Francisco’s historic preservation movement. Today, this exuberant Queen Anne style home survives as a site of national cultural and architectural significance. In addition to being on the National Register of Historic Places and San Francisco Landmark #69, the House was designated a National Treasure in 2012 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Haas-Lilienthal House is in Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. There are a lot of places to stay within a short walk from the house museum.

Museum assessment studies have been completed by the National Trust and the American Alliance of Museums. With support from the Columbia Foundation, Heritage commissioned the Sustainability Management Plan for the Haas-Lilienthal House, authored by Barbara A. Campagna, FAIA and released in March 2012. The original house was rectangular in plan with a narrow side yard to the south. Sometime after construction, the property to the south was purchased creating a wider yard, to the rear of which a two-story addition by Gardiner Daley was erected in 1928, giving the house its "L" shape of today. The woodframe Haas-Lilienthal House, designed by architect Peter R. Schmidt for William Haas, is an early Queen Anne at its San Francisco best.