- A four-story home on San Francisco's Macondray Lane is for sale for $4 million.
- Its owner is Facebook Australia's former head of operations, Paul Borrud, who left the company in 2012 but remained in Sydney.
- Macondray Lane is one of the most romanticized parts of the city, having been fictionalized in Armistead Maupin's book series "Tales of the City."
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Nestled in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood is a pedestrian street surrounded by foliage and homes called Macondray Lane.
It's an idyllic part of the city that was fictionalized as "Barbary Lane" in a series of books set in San Francisco and penned by author Armistead Maupin starting in 1978. It was made into a TV show in the 1990s that starred Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis, and Netflix rebooted it last year.
Macondray Lane, or "Barbary Lane," has come to represent San Francisco in its most romanticized form, what newcomers envision the city to be when they first arrive.
The lane and the alcove it forms were added to the city's National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as the Russian Hill-Macondray Lane District. It's a bit of a rarity to snag a home along the strip - there are only a few.
But the one at 36 Macondray Lane is for sale for $4 million. And its owner once helmed one of the biggest companies in the tech hub region - and the world.
Here's what it's like inside Facebook Australia's former head Paul Borrud's idyllic San Francisco home.