Custom-built for a billionaire family in the 1980s, the “Jewett House” at 2990 Broadway on San Francisco’s famous ultra-high-end Gold Coast, aka Billionaires’ Row , has sold for the first time.
The 10,180-square-foot mansion was built for George “Fritz” Jewett Jr. and Lucy Jewett , a philanthropic power couple devoted to the arts. George was the heir to a logging fortune, but was a prominent businessman in his own right, as well as active on numerous civic and charitable boards. Both George and Lucy spent copious time and money supporting causes such as the San Francisco Ballet, the ARCS Foundation and numerous other organizations devoted to science, education, conservation and medicine. The Jewetts were also avid — and very adept — sailors: Both of them were inducted into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame (and Lucy was only the second woman in history to earn that honor).
George and Lucy commissioned architect Sandy Walker to build their family home at 2990 Broadway in the late 1980s. At the time, the 0.18-acre lot was — to quote the official listing — “the most coveted, cornerstone location as the last house on Outer Broadway.”
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