Haas–Lilienthal House
- Year
- 1886
- Style
- Queen Anne
- City
- San Francisco, CA
- Collection
- painted victorians
The Haas–Lilienthal House at 2007 Franklin Street in Pacific Heights was built in 1886 for the merchant William Haas and his wife Bertha Greenebaum, both from Bavarian Jewish immigrant families who had built successful mercantile businesses in California. The Victorian house survived the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed much of the city, and it is now one of San Francisco's few fully furnished Victorian house museums open to the public.
the building
A survivor's interior. Donated to the nonprofit San Francisco Heritage in 1973, the house was converted into a museum furnished with period furniture and artifacts, drawing more than 6,500 visitors a year as of 2016 — a rare chance to walk through an intact 1886 San Francisco interior.
the style
The house is built in the Queen Anne style, the ornamented, asymmetrical Victorian idiom that once filled Pacific Heights and much of San Francisco before the 1906 fire destroyed most surviving examples, making this house's survival unusual.
More on Queen Annesignificance
The Haas–Lilienthal House is a California Point of Historical Interest, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and has been designated a National Treasure.
nearby
- C. A. Belden House
- Spreckels Mansion
- Atherton House
- Tobin House
- McElroy Octagon House
- Alhambra Theatre