This year’s most buzzed-about home, now playing host to the 2019 SF Decorator Showcase, made headlines over the last decade for housing a ne’er-do-well squatter, who lived in the long-vacant home and sold the pricey valuables inside, and for briefly sparking Taylor Swift’s interest.
It returns to the forefront again after landing on the market this week for $30 million, making it one of San Francisco’s most expensive homes on the market.
Featuring nine bedrooms, seven and a half bathrooms, and 17,895 square feet, 3800 Washington, known as Le Petit Trianon, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Inspired by King Louis XV’s Chateau at the Versailles Palace in France, this three-story mansion, built in 1904, withstood the great quake and fire of 1906.
It is a decidedly glamorous structure, one that flies in the face of today’s contemporary mega homes rife with clean lines and antiseptic sparsity.
“The home has been host to a glittering array of some of the most important social, cultural, artistic, and philanthropic events in the city’s history,” says Joel Goodrich, the manse’s listing agent.
For example, the home’s original owner, Cora Koshland, used her home for concerts. According to SF City Guides, “She invited music critics to review the performances, which were hosted in the rotunda rather than the ballroom because it had better acoustics. She could accommodate almost 100 guests sitting on the stairs and the floor.”
The newly redesigned rooms inside the luxe abode, each remodeled by a different Bay Area designer as part of the Decorator Showcase tradition, will be offered to the new homeowner. (Last year’s showcase home in the Marina also hit the market shortly after hosting the annual design fest.)
It’s currently the third-most-expensive home on the market in San Francisco, behind the penthouse at 181 Fremont and 950 Lombard, asking $42 million and $45 million, respectively.
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