The listing price on 47 Chenery has dropped from $12.5 million to $11 million since September. Quirky estates like this one typically spend more time on the market.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
In 2009, Pritikin estimated he spends "a few hundred thousand" a year on landscaping and repairs alone. Those rooftop solar panels might help lower his electricity bill.
Source: Noe Valley Voice
In the penthouse, stained glass windows salvaged from the former Little Sisters of the Poor Church reflect and sparkle off a 12-foot-by-20-foot indoor swimming pool.
Source: Socketsite
Pritikin admits only close friends and the occasional busload of seniors, who pay for lunch and a tour, to his in-home museum. He estimated the value of his collection at $50 million.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
He's got a needlepoint tapestry of George Washington surrounded by $1 bills; a wall-sized replica of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch"; and a $35,000 chair no one is allowed to sit in.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Pritikin is an avid art collector, and his home doubles as a private museum of oddities. The clock (right) that once hung above F.A.O. Schwarz in San Francisco resides in the foyer.
Past the gates, the estate includes a five-bedroom, five-bathroom main residence, a garden cottage, and statue-laden grounds. The neoclassical facade lends a French country vibe.
Pritikin, a former ad man who claims to have named Google (but was never credited), accesses the compound through the three-unit dwelling on Chenery Street.
Source: Gizmodo
