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616 South June Street (2nd)




  • The second of three residences built on Lot 8 in Tract 7040 and numbered 616 South June Street was erected in 1963. (Tract 7040 was a re-subdivision of Tract 6388; 7040's Lot 8 was originally Lot 160 of Tract 6388.) The first 616 was built in 1928 and the third in 2016
  • Original commissioner: Concord Development Company
  • Architect: none specified on the building permit; the design was presumably done by a member of the staff of Concord Development if not subcontracted out. Sales ads would refer to the design as "English Modern," which was perhaps a nod the its predecessor; the half-timbering motif was originally picked out in a dark color
  • On July 17, 1963, permits were issued by the Department of Building and Safety to Concord Development for the construction of a two-story, 70-by-58-foot residence and a detached one-story, 20-by-20-foot garage on the site of the original burned 616 South June Street
  • The second 616 South June Street was being offered for sale even before completion; ads in the Times in January 1964 exclaimed that it was "to be finished soon!" The property lingered on the market into the fall, when ads specified a price of $89,500. A certificate of occupancy for the completed new house was issued to Concord Development on February 18, 1965. By the spring an Arnold Nathanson appears to have acquired the project; he was issued a permit by the Department of Building and Safety to add a 30-by-33-foot terrace. He also appears to have decided to flip the property, or for some reason stay only a short time. Ads in the Times in the spring of 1966, offering it at $110,000, appear to have attracted a buyer, Edward N. Bagley, an executive with Goodbody & Company, a New York–based securities firm. After he was called east after being named C.E.O. of Goodbody—which would become part of Merrill Lynch in December 1970—616 again appeared on the market in the summer of 1969, lingering into the next year
  • Nebraska-born William Michael Chambers and his Iowa-born wife, née Margaret Ryan, appear to have bought 616 South June Street by 1971 and to have still owned it at the time of, or close to the time of, their deaths in 2009 and 2008, respectively
  • An owner following the Chamberses was issued a demolition permit for the 53-year-old house and garage at 616 South June Street by the Department of Building and Safety on September 6, 2016. The same owner was issued permits the next day for the third residence to be built on Lot 8 in Tract 7040 and addressed 616 South June, as well as a large rear building incorporating a garage and recreation room; certificates of occupancy were issued in the fall of 2021


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