Of all the recent dings against historic preservation — and there have been a heap — perhaps none is as ironic as the near demolition of 2229 Webster St. in the Fillmore District.
The Italianate Victorian was, for decades, home to Anne Bloomfield, a dedicated preservationist who was president of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians when she died.
While her research led to many landmark and historic neighborhood designations (and it was the backbone of a survey discussed later in this piece) she couldn’t protect her own house. The renovation of her longtime home, built in the 1870s, far exceeded its permits…