The Roos House is a historic single family house built in 1909 in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark (no. 56) since 1973; and on the National Register of Historic Places since October 8, 2009, for the architecture.
History The Roos House is a three-story-over basement wood frame house and it is . With It was built in 1909, designed in a Tudor Revival style with Gothic ornamentation by architect Bernard Maybeck. Maybeck also designed the light fixtures throughout the house, and some of the furniture. It is roughly in a T–shaped plan, and each section of the house is capped by a gable roof.
The rear lot that was once used as a formal vegetable garden (also designed by Maybeck) was sold in 1989, to help with the cost of the house repairs after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
See also
List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks National Register of Historic Places listings in San Francisco
References
External links Image: Roos House, San Francisco: [interior, fireplace] (n.d., from Roy Flamm photographs of buildings designed by Bernard Maybeck) via U.C. Berkeley Library