In some instances, beauty MAY be only skin deep....

but what a beautiful skin this is!

Clement Street between 15th and 16th Avenues

Craigslist upstaged

We love Craigslist, and, for that matter, Craig. 
Craig and his crew have operated out of a modest house in the Inner Sunset for years.  In spite of the success of Craigslist.org, think of what they could have achieved had they occupied a fine example of San Francisco permastone.

The real treasure of this block -- albeit somewhat marred by unsightly asphalt shingles -- is just three doors down the street on 9th Avenue between Irving and Judah.

A surprising treat (and a bit hard to see since the construction of a building next door) is this delicate treatment of an open-sided porch.

Flowers and permastone....bellisimi!

Row is a row is a row

London has its terraces, Philadelphia has its rowhouses....

but neither has this row of six houses showing bold innovation while adhering to a framework of elements -- arched entryways, centered bays on the second floor, and two windows on the third floor -- that unite.

Of course, the whole is enhanced by the one house clad in permastone.

 

California Street between 7th and 8th Avenues