We’ve Moved! COUPAR on Sacramento Street
Map from House Beautiful 2014 Shop America Program, artist: Nik Neves
We've moved! After a long tenancy in the South of Market's San Francisco Design Center, COUPAR moved to Presidio Heights. Our 1920s storefront office at 3464 Sacramento Street shares space with Chloe Gallery. The gallery, co-founded by Amy Nelder and Greg Lejnieks, specializes in American and international modern and contemporary art. Amy, an artist, will have a studio upstairs. Sacramento Street has long been a haven for interior design and architect offices. The seven blocks feature restaurants, coffee shops, home furnishing stores, fashion boutiques, and salons. Our staff also enjoys the proximity to Pacific Heights and Laurel Village.
Roos House, photographer: Jason Miller
In addition to panoramic views, Pacific Heights boasts some of the most significant architecture in San Francisco. The varied built landscape includes Victorian, Edwardian, Beaux Arts, Craftsman, and Modernist estates. Among these homes, you will find work by renowned architects of the 19th century and 20th century. Bernard Maybeck's Roos House at 3500 Jackson, built in 1909, is listed on the National Register and as a San Francisco Landmark. The theater owner Morris Meyerfeld commissioned Maybeck to design the Tudor revival-style mansion as a wedding present for his daughter Elizabeth upon her marriage to the merchant Leon Lazare Roos.
Cal-Mart on California Street in Laurel Village, 1952
Down the hill, Laurel Village Shopping Center —the Midcentury Modern retail strip encompasses two blocks of California Street with buildings dating from 1948 through the 50s. The center's eateries and shops have evolved but remain vibrant and bustling. Before the onslaught of upscale shoppers, the site contained the graves of San Francisco pioneers, U.S. senators, and Civil War heroes as a part of Laurel Hill Cemetery. The graveyard opened in 1854 but, by 1937, had fallen into disrepair, and the City ordered the remains exhumed and reburied in Colma. Developers repurposed the land for commercial and residential use.
