The Quinn House is a historic house built c. 1870 and located in the
Bayview–Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
The Quinn House has been listed as a
San Francisco Designated Landmark since July 6, 1974.
History
The Quinn House is located at 1562 McKinnon Avenue in San Francisco. It was built for Mary Quinn in c. 1870, and the house remained in the Quinn family for 83 years.
It is a two-story
Italianate
The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...
-style wooden structure with a prominent
bay window
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.
In the 1950s, the Quinn sisters lived on separate floors of the building and didn’t get along; as a result the house was painted separately by floor level.
In 1958, the Quinn family sold the house.
In 1965, the house was used as the headquarters of the consumer pilot program, Bay Area Neighborhood Development (BAND) led by Ira Henderson; later known as the Redevelopment Hunters Point site office.
In 2014, the Quinn House sold for over USD $1 million, making it one of the most expensive houses in the Bayview.
See also
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List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks
References
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San Francisco Designated Landmarks
Houses completed in 1870
1870s architecture in the United States
Bayview–Hunters Point, San Francisco