Historic Cliffside Apartment Where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Lived Lists at 8 Million
A historic 11-unit building tucked into the cliffs of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill has just hit the market, and the $8 million asking price barely scratches the surface of what makes it remarkable.
The property at 36-52 Calhoun Terrace was listed on June 23, 2026, for the first time in decades. From the street, you would walk right past it.
Step around to the rear, and you are looking at an 88-year-old Art Moderne building built directly into a sheer face of exposed bedrock, cascading down the hillside in the style of a Swiss mountain village.
The Building That Shouldn’t Exist
The cliffside it sits on was never meant to be buildable land. In the early 1900s, brothers George and Harry Gray illegally blasted Telegraph Hill to quarry rock, sending boulders crashing onto neighboring homes below…