100 Years of History Demolished!!!

THE HOUSES ON 

SILLIMAN STREET

The house next door to mine was abandoned for the past five years and already been condemned for demolition. A new huge three-story "single family" home will be erected in its place.

All these "A" Frame Victorian homes started to be built in 1903 and were finished in 1907, a year after the earthquake hit San Francisco. All the homes in the neighborhood were built following the same architectural design with minor modifications. My house is the only survivor of that breed of small homes from a long gone era.

The machine arrived on Thursday evening casting an imposing shadow and profile against the old house. Workers arrived to the site at about 6:45am and by 7am the house was being torn down. It only took an hour for the entire house to be completely demolished, and by noon the site had been cleaned up of all the wood, concrete and fixtures that made up the house. The house is gone but the ghosts of the past will remain on Silliman Street.