This storied San Francisco home might be half finished, but it’s certainly full of history.

Members of the Pacific Palisades community will likely know the architectural significance of this particular Tudor Gothic Revival mansion. For the unsed, here’s the skinny: The landmark Tobin House in the Bay Area was built in 1915 for Michael H. de Young, a journalist and the founder of the San Francisco Chronicle. Now, the last remnant of his medieval-looking estate has just been listed for $13.85 million.

More than a century ago, de Young commissioned architect Willis Polk to construct the stately California property. It was initially designed to be two adjacent homes, one for each of his daughters. The current residence was meant to be built alongside a twin house that was connected via an archway, but the right side was never completed. No one knows for sure what caused Polk to stop halfway through, although local folklore suggests de Young’s daughter Helen wanted to remain in her own estate.

Inside the historic Tobin House.

Jacob Elliott for Sotheby’s International Realty

“Anyone who has been in this part of San Francisco for a long time has noticed this home’s beauty,” listing agent Stacey Caen of Sotheby’s International Realty told the Wall Street Journal. “The incomplete arch makes people wonder what could have been.”

The sellers, husband-and-wife duo Anthony and Celeste Meier, bought the Tobin House in 2004 for roughly $6.5 million and carried out nearly $5 million worth of renovations. Currently, the couple runs an art gallery on the first floor. “As a stand-alone, it’s a beautiful piece of sculpture,” Anthony said.

The Bay Area residence was built in 1915 by architect Willis Polk.

Jacob Elliott for Sotheby’s International Realty

The 8,990-square-foot home has five bedrooms and five bathrooms spread across its four stories. While the exterior comes off as foreboding thanks to its gray concrete plaster facade and copper chimney stacks, the inside tells a much brighter story. There are diamond-patterned lead windows that let in ample amounts of natural light in the living room. In addition, the third-floor sitting area features a vaulted ceiling with a skylight. The modern floor plan also includes a wine room, a gym, a gourmet chef’s kitchen, a walkout terrace and a large library.

If you’re wondering why the couple has chosen to part ways with the historic property, it’s because, like many empty nesters, they’ve decided to downsize. Their loss could be your gain.

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Jacob Elliott for Sotheby’s International Realty

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Elon Musk appears to be keeping his promise to “not own a house”.

Last year, SpaceX’s CEO tweeted that he was selling all of his real estate to dump “almost all of his physical possessions”. By the end of the year, he had given up four of his Bel Air residences for a combined total of $ 62 million. Now, Musk is reportedly on the verge of ditching the last lot in his portfolio: a San Francisco area mansion that was last listed for $ 32 million.

One of the living areas

Photo: Bernard André

Musk originally listed the 16,000-square-foot home for $ 35 million last year, a number that would make a significant profit since he originally paid $ 23.3 million for the house, according to real estate records. It was in the months following his initial announcement that it would give up all of its own assets, in and out of the market.

A floor

Photo: Bernard André

The historic residence was originally built around 1912; It was designed by the architectural firm Bliss & Faville. It has since been renovated to meet modern standards – the grand ballroom, dining room, and kitchens have all been redesigned.

The dining room

Photo: Bernard André

It is a total of seven beds, seven baths on a spacious 47 acre lot. In the dining area there is a “hidden” cocktail room, which is accessible via a retractable wall made of library shelves. Other perks include wine and whiskey cellars in the basement, as well as a separate room for flower arrangements. The master suite, on the other hand, has its own fireplace, two walk-in wardrobes and two full bathrooms – one of which has a free-standing bathtub. Outside there is a pool and gazebo for entertainment and a separate three-car garage.

The house combines living inside and outside

Photo: Bernard André

The property is currently on a conditional offer, meaning Musk has accepted a buyer’s initial proposal, according to the New York Post. All in all, there is still a chance the deal will fail, in which case the billionaire’s last major piece of land would still be up for grabs.

The living room

Photo: Bernard André

Where does Musk live now? He tweeted in June that he currently lives in Boca Chica, near the SpaceX campus, in about $ 50,000 worth of rented apartment. Talk about living below your means.

See more photos of the San Francisco area residence below:

One of the bedrooms

Photo: Bernard André

One of the primary bathrooms

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The walk-in closet

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San Francisco may have suffered a painful population loss in 2020, but the city’s luxury real estate market is now rolling back like fog from the bay. Expensive home sales and prices are skyrocketing, and one particularly confident high-end developer just got one special house in Cow Hollow for $ 46 million.

If that were achieved, it would be one of the most expensive sales ever in San Francisco, which has one of the highest income inequality rates in the US and according to data it lost 4 percent of its population in May a migration report from the analysis company Placer.ai.

Despite these strong headwinds, Neal Ward, the realtor for 2582 Filbert Street, a newly built six bedroom mansion on triple the width of lot, is optimistic about the city’s prospects. “After a very uncertain 2020, the market took off in March 2021 in ways we have never seen or expected,” he told Robb Report. “What made San Francisco and Silicon Valley wonderful living environments is now being brought back to life after a sleepy Covid, and the city’s pulse has never felt stronger.”

The main living area goes into the back yard if the owner so wishes.

Photo: Jacob Elliott

Retiring “families and influencers”, he said, have been replaced by “an enormous number of new upstarts” [who] have been very successful. ”Awards, he said, are supported by San Francisco’s“ limited geography and available properties ”. The $ 46 million price tag, he says, isn’t as unusual as it seems. “While other properties exist at much higher prices, they are not for sale or are not publicly marketed.”

One recently report by Compass supports Ward’s optimism. Sales of four or more bedrooms rose 22 percent year-over-year, while the average selling price of a home in Pacific Heights, just around the corner from 2582 Filbert Street, rose to a new high of $ 6.75 million a year is to this day (although there were only 16 sales, the supply is so tight.)

A living area at 2582 Filbert opens onto a terrace with a fireplace inside and out.

Photo: Jacob Elliott

The 12,200-square-foot house is spread over three levels, with each floor being approximately 4,000 square-feet. The house is an emblem of biophilic design, a new trend in which a house is built to prioritize natural materials, light, ventilation, and technology for filtering air and water. This room has a cornucopia of energy-saving and wellness-promoting facilities: solar collectors, pollutant-free paints, triple-glazed windows and doors, rainwater harvesting and a MERV-13 air filter system that changes the indoor air nine times a day.

Another living room in 2582 Filbert with an indoor fireplace.

Photo: Jacob Elliott

Inside, the 19-foot high motorized front door (accessible via biometric entrance, of course) opens to a two-story atrium with a 30-foot stone wall. The prospective buyer can also find a floating glass staircase and reflective indoor pools. Further exploration reveals three indoor fireplaces and two outdoor fire pits, a fitness room with a terrace for open-air workouts, a 72-foot lap pool and built-in stainless steel spa, a separate “wellness spa” with a glass sauna and steam shower with waterfall chromotherapy -Rain head. Other delights include a private movie theater, wine bar, Tesla Powerwall, and must-have lighting fixtures that “mimic natural shapes like water waves, plant vessel systems, lightning bolts, and other fractal shapes.”

Outside, a small but very well-kept garden behind the house has a stone terrace, a lawn, an outside kitchen and evergreen plants to hide from the neighbors. The upper floors also open to terraces, while the roof is crowned by an outdoor lounge with views across the bay from the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz.

The roof terrace offers a breathtaking view of the city and another fireplace.

Photo: Jacob Elliott

According to the developer of the house, Gregory Malin, CEO of Troon Pacific, the look is “San Francisco meets Los Angeles. An open, airy, modern, newly built house on such an extensive plot of land in San Francisco is unique. “

Ward is even more exuberant: “The residence is one of the rarest and most epic properties that San Francisco has ever seen, or will ever see again.”

Check out more photos of the spec house below:

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