If you're wondering about the two houses I posted recently, here's some more information: The Delaney House was originally built in the 1880's, probably on a farming tract, and moved to the lot on 62nd Street in the early 1900's (click for background info). Tom and Dmitri bought it partly to have a place for their son, Eliot, to live on his own. Eliot did live there briefly before we got permits, and will probably live there again. But then it will be in a much expanded house with room for others.
The other house, the Cheney Cottage, was originally built in 1902 on a part of College Avenue that got swallowed up by the UC Berkeley campus. UCB got permission to demolish it, and the Cheney House next door, if nobody was interested in bidding a dollar or more to take them away. Tom & Dmitri were about to close escrow on the 62nd Street property and figured they could probably get the smaller one on there, since they were planning to move Delaney anyway. Little did they know what they were in for.
Both houses will be single-family residences once they've been renovated and remodeled. Tom and Dmitri can provide housing for their ever-widening circle of friends, as well as their sons, Eliot and Sebastian, and their sons' friends!
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