The History Behind The $5 Million Mansion in “The Last Black Man In San Francisco”

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Perhaps no film in recent memory has centered so much around a house as The Last Black Man In San Francisco.&nbsp;

The classic Victorian home is featured extensively throughout the course of the film – in many ways embodying a secondary persona of protagonist Jimmie Fails. Details such as the color of the window pane, the construction date and the “witch-hat” roof become key parts of the story line. Obtaining ownership of the home becomes a means of reclaiming Jimmie’s own identity.

In real life, the magnificent 5,240-square-foot, 6-bedroom home is worth roughly $4.9 million (according to Zillow), and is located on South Van Ness Avenue, in the “Shotwell Historic District”. A subset of the Mission District, the Shotwell Historic District features some of the most ornamental, and well-preserved Victorian era houses of the late 1800s, and represents the Mission District’s “early, prototypical residential neighborhoods”. Built in 1889 for noted land developer John Coop, the home is considered as having Queen-Anne style architecture – defined by flamboyant elements such as a turret tour, and an open porch with rounded columns.&nbsp;

To find a home so worthy of its own exposition, Director Joe Talbot literally knocked door-to-door around the city, until he finally found a house he felt had all “swoon-worthy” elements of San Francisco’s world-famous Victorian-style architecture. Many elements of the house – such as the built-in organ in the foyer – are true to real life.

“When you walk into that house, your mood changes,” reports lead actor Jimmie Fails. “That’s how it should have felt, because the house in the film is a character.”

Currently the home belongs to the James Tyler Trust, whose namesake is recorded as having owned the home since the 1960s.&nbsp;

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Perhaps no film in recent memory has centered so much around a house as The Last Black Man In San Francisco. 

The classic Victorian home is featured extensively throughout the course of the film – in many ways embodying a secondary persona of protagonist Jimmie Fails. Details such as the color of the window pane, the construction date and the “witch-hat” roof become key parts of the story line. Obtaining ownership of the home becomes a means of reclaiming Jimmie’s own identity.

In real life, the magnificent 5,240-square-foot, 6-bedroom home is worth roughly $4.9 million (according to Zillow), and is located on South Van Ness Avenue, in the “Shotwell Historic District”. A subset of the Mission District, the Shotwell Historic District features some of the most ornamental, and well-preserved Victorian era houses of the late 1800s, and represents the Mission District’s “early, prototypical residential neighborhoods”. Built in 1889 for noted land developer John Coop, the home is considered as having Queen-Anne style architecture – defined by flamboyant elements such as a turret tour, and an open porch with rounded columns. 

To find a home so worthy of its own exposition, Director Joe Talbot literally knocked door-to-door around the city, until he finally found a house he felt had all “swoon-worthy” elements of San Francisco’s world-famous Victorian-style architecture. Many elements of the house – such as the built-in organ in the foyer – are true to real life.

“When you walk into that house, your mood changes,” reports lead actor Jimmie Fails. “That’s how it should have felt, because the house in the film is a character.”

Currently the home belongs to the James Tyler Trust, whose namesake is recorded as having owned the home since the 1960s.