A rustic wooden house in one of the most expensive postcodes in the Bay sells cheap

The property, at 7135 Pinehaven Road, contains three adjoining parcels on 25,000 square meters of land.

“It’s a very unique property, but it’s not good,” said agent Nick Flageollet. “We found an interesting history of the place. In the thirties there was a fire.”

The fire in question was reported to the Oakland Tribune on October 23, 1933. But the cabin, built in the 1890s, somehow survived. It is probable that the said ‘destroyed’ house was a second building on the same plot.

Four years later, another historic fire that burned 9 square miles of the Oakland hills – including the steep land where the house sits – made headlines, but again the log cabin at Pinehaven survived.

Archives show that the fire started in 1937 when a bonfire in a music teacher got out of control on Pinewood Road on September 25, 1937. During the first six hours, the fire burned to a point across the western edge of the Pinehaven district on Broadway Terrace. just below Skyline Boulevard and back into another gorge to the west.

The cabin is now described as ‘significantly dilapidated’, and could very well be a demolition unless an innovative refurbishment can keep it standing, as it has been for 130 years.

The property is represented by Nick Flageollet; find the list here.