SF’s famed octagonal house gets $1.3M price chop

San Francisco’s famed historic eight-sided Green Street home took another price cut.

The home, one of two remaining octagonal houses in the city and one of the oldest homes on Russian Hill, hit the market last May with an asking price of $8.6 million, SocketSite reported. In November, the home at 1067 Green Street, took an $800,000 price cut. Now the price has been dropped by another $1.3 million to $6.5 million.

The four-bedroom, 5,267-square-foot house is configured as two separate units. According to Redfin, only the top unit with two bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths is “vacant for the new owner.”

The 9,075-square-foot lot includes a detached two-car garage/carriage house that is accessible via Leavenworth Street.

Octagon houses were popularized in the mid-19th century by Orson Squire Fowler, who said his design was better for light and ventilation. The Feusier Octagon House was one of about a hundred homes built after his 1848 book on the subject.

The Green Street home was built for George L. Kenny, an agent for a prominent historian of the time, but it’s most known for its association with Louis Feusier, a businessman who hobnobbed with the likes of Leland Stanford and Mark Twain. He bought the home from Kenny in 1875 and added its octagonal cupola in the 1880s. The four-bedroom home remained in his family for about eight decades.

The current owners are the children of the late Howard and Iran Billman, who bought the property for $2.8 million in 1998 after “the earth literally swallow[ed]” their Seacliff home due to a 16-foot-diameter sewer collapse in the Presidio, according to Iran’s 2015 obituary.

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