The former industrial complex has had many lives, most recently as an urban oasis.
-- Jamie Emerick, an artist, and Issac Roth, a partner in the venture capital firm Shasta Ventures, were already living in San Francisco when they came across an historic, 685 square-foot cottage in the South of Market neighborhood.
“The bones were all there, the garden was amazing, it just needed some freshening,” says Roth. “A lot of time people come in and use a heavy hand, but our practice was to restore it.” Now, after living in the updated building, the couple is ready for their next project, and have put the property on the market with Wendy Storch of Sotheby’s International Realty – San Francisco Brokerage for $4.8 million.
The couple tried to learn more about the building during this period, but they discovered that former patrons of the bathhouse were reticent to discuss it. “We had two people stop by and ask like ‘Are the mezzanines still there? We really had a good time in there,” Roth says. “And I was like, ‘Wait tell me more, what was it like?’ But they were a little quiet—they didn’t want to share too much.”
When the couple purchased the entirety of the property, they updated the garden; they cut down some of the bamboo, Roth says, and used it in the house for furniture and hand railings.Both the cottage and the main house have garages fronting the street. On the main house’s ground floor there’s a large open kitchen and dining room with a vaulted, double-height ceiling, a living room, and a room that doubles as a yoga studio and guest room.
The home, Emerick says, is an oasis. “It’s like completely being surrounded by nature,” she says. “It’s very shocking, in a way, to come off the concrete jungle into this lush garden.” That green element, she continues, is so important that “even when inside, we wanted to be feeling it,” and so much of their restoration entailed orienting the layout of the home so that it emphasized their little slice of forest.
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