John McMullen House

John McMullen arrived in San Francisco in 1876 and quickly proceeded to start a number of dredging and contracting companies. He built bridges, canals, seawalls, and piers in San Francisco and as far as New York and Manila.
This Stick Style^{1It's a transitional style between Gothic Revival and full Queen Anne. You'll recognize it by the decorative stick work intended to make it look like half-timbered houses. There may also be some overhanging eaves, squared bay windows, false gable or mansard, or sunbursts in gables as well as vertical trim at sides of windows.} house was designed for him by the Californian architect Samuel Newsome. In the 1970s it belonged to Leroy^{2Father of the Tenderloin https://beyondchron.org/leroy-looper-the-father-of-the-tenderloin} and Kathy Looper who called it Chateau Agape after their daughter and operated it as a mental health care facility. It now houses one of the most San Francisco things ever: Agape SF^{3https://agapesf.org/} - a commune cofounded by a tech entrepreneur, an ecopsychologist^{4https://jordanama.one/blog-1}, and an artist.

^{1It's a transitional style between Gothic Revival and full Queen Anne. You'll recognize it by the decorative stick work intended to make it look like half-timbered houses. There may also be some overhanging eaves, squared bay windows, false gable or mansard, or sunbursts in gables as well as vertical trim at sides of windows.}It's a transitional style between Gothic Revival and full Queen Anne. You'll recognize it by the decorative stick work intended to make it look like half-timbered houses. There may also be some overhanging eaves, squared bay windows, false gable or mansard, or sunbursts in gables as well as vertical trim at sides of windows.
^{2Father of the Tenderloin https://beyondchron.org/leroy-looper-the-father-of-the-tenderloin}Father of the Tenderloin https://beyondchron.org/leroy-looper-the-father-of-the-tenderloin
^{3https://agapesf.org/}https://agapesf.org/
^{4https://jordanama.one/blog-1} https://jordanama.one/blog-1