Restored four-bedroom a piece of Mill Valley history
Musical pedigree, contemporary amenities and a room clad with first-growth, clearheart redwood fashion a piece of Mill Valley history. Japanese carpenter Utsimatsu Tashiro built the home for Dr. David Hodghead, who is the father of Lillian Hodghead, co-founder of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
The home blends modern conveniences amid historical elements with views of San Francisco.
“It has the soul of an old house with infrastructure of a
new one,” said Tamara Goldman of Pacific Union Real Estate, who is listing 175 Marguerite Ave. for $2.695 million. “It’s an older house but totally restored, updated and added on to.”
The shingled four-bedroom dates back to 1916 and was updated and expanded in 1958, 1995 and 2011. Now it boasts an updated chef ’s kitchen, an open living/dining room, cedar-lined closets, and Ipe decks.
Musical history radiates throughout the home. It’s where Ernest Bloch wrote “America: An Epic Rhapsody for Orchestra” while living there as a guest. Antique sconces, schoolhouse fixtures, and vintage porcelain pedestal sinks speak to the home’s classical construction.
The most dramatic example of historic design resides in the redwood room, a public room paneled in the pristine timber. A clinker brick fireplace anchoring the room was carefully rebuilt piece by piece, Goldman said. Built-in shelving and a window seat finish the century-old room.
Red oak flooring with cherry inlay lines interior. The home opens to a stairway that ascends to the upper level, where the great room, redwood room and others await. Bedrooms reside on the lower level and look out at the landscape through large picture windows.
Offering more than 2,700 square feet of living space, the home offers ample room for entertaining and daily living. Set back off the street, the home affords plenty of privacy for residents as well.
Stone-lined pathways, native plantings, fruit trees, a vegetable garden and terraces below the house highlight some of the exterior spaces.
Learn more at www.175marguerite.com.