Onetime presidential hopeful Tom Steyer put his longtime residence in San Francisco up for sale this September. According to public records, Steyer has owned the property since 1990. He’s asking $11 million for the 5,600 sq. ft. freestanding house.
Thirty years is a long time to own a residence, and over the years the Steyer family has made the residence uniquely their own. Original details in the 1908-built house include leaded windows and—by all appearances—the narrow-plank hardwood, which shows a patina of authenticity that is well nary impossible to duplicate as an aesthetic contemporary design choice.
The home contains seven bedrooms and six baths in its living space. It is designed in the townhouse style, and reaches four floors above terra firma. The interiors are something of an odyssey of 20th century home fashion, with midcentury modern existing beside pre-WWI extravagance of form.
The home’s layout places the master on the second floor, a family gathering space on the third, and an in-law suite on the garden level; a hydroponic front garden, water feature and koi pond convert the limited outdoor space into a meditative sanctuary. And this home has one defining feature that will surely appeal to the contemporary buyer in this part of the world: it is marvelously green, with passive and active solar and wind turbines providing some of its power.
Steyer is a hedge fund manager. His net worth is north of $1 billion.
