C. A. Belden House
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| Location | 2004-2010 Gough St., San Francisco, California |
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| Coordinates | 37°47′29″N 122°25′28″W / 37.79139°N 122.42444°W |
| Area | 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) |
| Built | 1889 |
| Architect | Walter J. Mathews |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 83001229[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 11, 1983 |
The C. A. Belden House is a historic building in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. It was designed by Walter J. Mathews in the Queen Anne style[2][3] and completed in 1889.
The house is on Gough Street, facing Lafayette Park. Designed by Walter J. Mathews, a prominent Bay Area architect, it is unusual in San Francisco in being purely Queen Anne in style.[4] It is three stories tall, with a steeply pitched gable roof and two corner turrets with conical roofs; the turrets and the first floor have fish-scale shingles, while the remainder of the house is clad in horizontal siding.[4] The main facade, facing the park, is decorated with carved and plaster areas that have been compared to "patterns appliqued on a Victorian sampler":[5] the pediment under the gable is richly carved, two sunbursts flank a pair of windows on the third floor, and below an arched window porch on the second floor is a panel with a grinning mythological beast.[4] The house's style has been characterized as "[a] full flowering of Queen Anne exuberance".[6]
