The 30-foot ceilings in an apartment in a converted church in San Francisco might be enough for a lucky buyer to give thanks for the $6.975 million asking price.
One of only four apartments has come onto the market at Light House, a building that 100 years ago was the Second Church of Christ Scientist.
But since last year it has been called the Light House and it is home to four unique, 5,000-square-foot luxury townhomes, one of which is now up for grabs.
This was a "seismically condemned building that needed to be taken from that condition to where it is today," explained broker Marcus Miller. The building was condemned in 2006. "It is a work of passion by our amazing developer and client Siamak Akhavan and it shows through and through." In February 2016, when the building opened, units were going for $6.49 million. Details like brick walls, industrial beams and other rough materials were both an aesthetic as well as political choice to please a city agency. Aesthetically, you can see what the building is made of, and the city planning department was happy to keep the building’s legacy on display.
"A third of the visible girders are century-old Carnegie steel, and on each interior brick wall you can spot the trenched edges where 100-year-old bricks were dug out, tested for structural integrity, and carefully reinserted," Curbed reported on the building’s opening last year.
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The 5,493-square-foot townhouse includes three bedrooms and three baths. The kitchen has a library-style ladder on rollers to reach high cabinets. Original fixtures like a water fountain and light sconces add to the charm and sense of history. But while the original materials are striking, the new features, including barn-style sliding doors made of frosted glass that open onto a den, are beautiful as well.
The seller, who purchased the home for $6.4 million in April 2016 used the apartment as a combined living and work space, which Mr. Miller said, gives you a sense for how big the whole thing is—it’s the biggest of the four units in the building —since "he had his staff comfortably working there with him there too."
A pew from the old church, which was included in the original sale, comes with this sale too.