Up on Carmel Street, at the tippity top of Cole Street where it splits off into Twin Peaks, sits what used to be Engine #40. The Carmel Fire House was built in 1915 in the perfect spot to overlook the surrounding neighborhoods and rush down to put out nearby fires.
It looked like this nearly a century ago.
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Now, as Curbed recently noticed, part of it is for sale – and at a correspondingly steep price.
The building is not an official historic landmark, but it's gotten the treatment of one. In 2001, the fire house was completely renovated by San Francisco interior designer Leslie Bahr and turned into two separate residences. All the original details were preserved, from the poles to the hooks on the ceiling where the firehoses used to hang.
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Of the two units, 8 Carmel Street is the front of the building, where the big doors are. The other unit, 10 Carmel Street, is at the back of the building, where the horses that pulled the engines used to be housed. And 10 Carmel is what is up for sale.
If you're in the market for a big purchase, the residence has four bedrooms, five baths, one parking space, panoramic views of the city, decks (yes, plural), a garden, 18-foot ceilings on the first floor, and totals 1,960 square feet of space.
The asking price? A cool $3 million even (which, according to Zillow, works out to a mortgage payment of about $11,385 per month).
Here's the a look at the interior (all photos via Carmelfirehouse.com):
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