The first notice described a single house
In September 1922, a building journal described a $4,000 single dwelling for James Landini. A November notice reported a $12,000 contract for four flats at the same location.
Trivia
The people who commissioned the building moved in
James and Zetta Landini, who commissioned the building, appeared in directories at No. 21 before they sold the property to Samuel and Rose Mayerson.
A World War II airman lived at No. 15
Joseph W. Maloney lived at No. 15 with his parents, Peter and Eileen, before serving as a B-24 radio operator and gunner in the Pacific. His crewmate Robert Raven recalled that Peter and Eileen hosted the crew while it was stationed at Hamilton Field in 1944. Joseph is second from the left in the front row of the October 1944 crew photograph he contributed to Raven’s oral history.
A historical creek map puts a channel under the building
A historical creek dataset published by the California Natural Resources Agency shows an unnamed channel crossing the present lot. Its reconstructed course also crosses the main building footprint in San Francisco’s 2010 building model. The overlay estimates the creek’s former course. It leaves open whether water flows beneath the property today.
Historical creeks map City building footprint data 1857 survey of the valley
Two generations lived next door to each other
By 1966, Sandra Giusti O’Balle and her husband Robert lived at No. 21, next to her parents at No. 19.