Sold: 1815 Vallejo Street
San Francisco, CA
- Offered at $ 5,998,000
- Sold: $6,850,000 on 05/26/2026
Features:
- Archetypal First Bay Tradition Shingle Style Mansion
- Five Bedrooms/Four baths + 2 ½ baths
- Beautiful architectural details:
- First Bay details
- Integration of natural environment –indoor/outdoor living by original design featuring multiple French doors to garden and stunning view of ancient redwood tree from living areas
- Purposeful and distinctive a-symmetrical window design on façade
- Use of local materials such as redwood on interior details, railings
- Period built-ins
- Moldings/columns and ornate balustrades
- Stained glass and mullioned windows
- Kitchen replete with Carrera Marble counters and backsplash, 48” Wolf range, Subzero fridge, breakfast bar + ample butler’s pantry with chilled wine storage
- Fully detached on all sides
- Freshly painted interior & front exterior
- Great floorplan with elegant central foyers on first two levels accessed by wide winding staircase
- Main level features open living/family and dining rooms and elegant kitchen
- 2nd level has three beds/2 baths
- Huge primary suite with separate sitting room and spacious bath with two vanities
- Hall bath with soaking tub + standing shower
- Convenient 2nd laundry location
- Top level
- Giant family/multi purpose room with craft sink and skylights
- Two bedrooms + one bath
- Access to 360 degree view roof deck with views of the Golden Gate, Bay and beyond
- Lower level
- Two room guest suite + kitchenette and main laundry
- One and ½ baths
- Storage and mechanical spaces
- Garage with internal access to lower level
- Easily accessed lush and private rear garden featuring ancient redwood tree, hot tub, BBQ with piped natural gas and flat lawn area
- Steps to Union Street and Fillmore shopping, dining and transit
- Year built: 1900 per tax records, but possibly completed just after according to some accounts (1904)
- Square footage: 4963 per graphic artist
- Lot square footage: Huge at 6605 per tax record
- Walkscore: 98 Walkers’ paradise!
In Sync with Nature, in the Center of the City
One can well imagine the original owner of this First Bay Tradition mansion contemplating nature at 1815 Vallejo. Though conveniently located on an oversized lot in Pacific Heights with easy walking access to Cow Hollow, the Marina and Russian Hill, you feel a hush upon entry as you are transported by the quiet forest view beyond nearly property-wide floor to ceiling French doors with an ancient coastal redwood for sentry.
Built purposefully and thoughtfully to integrate nature and inspire harmony, the home has an asymmetrical balance in its shingled façade and interior spaces. The main two living levels are centered around gracious foyers that both separate spaces and provide an open-ness that was not present in earlier Victorian style homes. The main level presents large living spaces that flow together around the garden – a large L shaped living room, dining room and separate elegant kitchen with breakfast bar and butler’s pantry, as well as a convenient ½ bath. You may step out into the level garden to be surrounded by nature, but with the modern convenience of a built-in spa, BBQ grill with piped natural gas, high-end turf for play and a big deck for entertaining. Upstairs, the bedroom level features a huge primary suite with ample built in closets as well as a walk in closet, two more spacious bedrooms, a laundry closet, and a hall bath with soaking tub plus step in shower. Up one more level, the top floor family room is flooded with light from huge skylights. There you will find the 4th and 5th bedrooms as well as a full bath with double vanity, a sink area perfect for crafts and a study nook. From the study nook, venture outside to meet the redwood mid-trunk and ascend a sturdy spiral staircase to the crowning jewel of the home – a roof deck with 360 degree views of the Bay, Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin headlands beyond.
The ground level completes the home: parking with interior access to the home; a two room guest suite with full bath, kitchenette/laundry room and its own exterior entrance; and another ½ bath + storage and mechanical areas.
1815 Vallejo was built by Joseph Mailliard. He and his brother John were nephews of abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic and grandsons of one of Napoleon’s personal secretaries. The Mailliard brothers were likely aware of the historical significance of everything they did. They made their own mark on history with the constriction of the sibling homes at 1815 Vallejo and 2461 Gough Street (where John lived), which originally shared a large open garden, as well as by contributing a huge collection of over 10,000 ornithological specimens to the California Academy of Sciences in 1919, with Joseph serving as a curator for many years.
Will history be made here again? Well, that depends on you. The scene is set for great things!
