A quiet house
at the edge of the bay.

Pres House sits on a rise above Presidio Boulevard, one of a small row of officer residences laid out when the post was still a working army garrison. Cream stucco, a low terracotta roof, a pair of chimneys, and an arched entry that has seen more than a century of arrivals.

Inside, the plan is honest and unfussy. Two floors, seven bedrooms, a wide living room with a stone fireplace, and windows that fill with morning light off the bay. The restoration kept what mattered: the oak floors, the plaster, the original casement windows. Now it is wired for the next century.