Must win lottery!!!!!

[gridlore]

http://www.601dolores.com/

I'd line the downstairs walls of the former chapel with bookshelves and lots of comfy chairs and tables, replace the main stained glass with panels of the Metal Gods, and bring in lots of movable panels or shoji screens so we could change the layout of the place for different needs. Since I've won the lottery here and am mad, I'd offer it to BASFA as a clubhouse and to any wandering fan as a place of refuge. Can you imagine the Thanksgiving Dinners That Couldn't Be Beat in this place! Can you imagine Halloween? (We'd fly the Transylvania flag from Rocky, of course.)

And it would go so well with the doublet I tried on at Baycon!

But what to call it? "Castle on the Park" is too New York (sorry to my NYC friends) for me. How about Caer Norton?

Want! Want! Want!

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[fusijui.livejournal.com]

I have to say, the exterior powerfully reminds me of what happens when a fire station rogers a train station (or perhaps a Victorian orphanage) without birth control.

But inside, pretty nice!! And isn't $7.5 mil pretty cheap for in-city real estate in San Francisco? I can't imagine something that size being much less up even here in the Emerald City. Heck, with a modestly-sized lottery win you could afford to retrofit a MOAT.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of that in Mission Delores. It's one of the few places in San Francisco that has a significant number of pre-1906 buildings still standing. That Victorian Industrial look was quite popular for larger public buildings.

We have a vendor right around 14th street that was built around the remaining three walls of a church. The street facing wall is wood and corrugated steel, the rest masonry. Go back far enough, and the original nave frames for stained glass are still there (now equipped with dirty wired safety glass, but not what you expect in an electrical supply warehouse!)

[fusijui.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see it actually was built as a church! Didn't make it all the way through the massive photo gallery yesterday.

Form and function both be damned, I'm just impressed by any architectural style that can churn out red brick wedding cakes.

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

Want! (I noticed that, in the photos of the immediate neighborhood, there's a bookstore...)

However... they took out the pipe organ, so if I'd won the lottery and bought it, I'd need to have one installed. (Also more in the way of accessibility - a mini-elevator, and unobtrusive ramps - there's certainly enough space to do that. Oh, extra grab bars in the bathrooms, that sort of thing...)

'k, that's enough daydreaming... *wry*

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Oh, an elevator for Kiri is a must do.. but that staircase!!! eeeeee!!!!

[10binary-cats.livejournal.com]

You would need, at the very least, an Igor...

[caraig.livejournal.com]

There's, a, li-i-ight... (Over at the Berry pla-ace!)...

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

This scans much better:

There's, a, li-i-ight... (Over at the Penguin Lord's place!)...

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Over on The List That Must Not Be Named, it was suggested that SFSFC purchase it as a clubhouse for Bay Area fandom. I noted that BASFA has enough to buy around 1/750th of it. Maybe one of the cupboards?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

With the spare change left over from buying the house, you can buy James Bond's Aston Martin (http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/james-bonds-aston-martin-db5-for-sale?imageNo=0).