After the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, families who had lost their homes were immediately housed in Army tent cities. In short order, 5,610 wooden cottages were built, most of them ten feet by fourteen feet, and leased to the occupants. By the summer of 1908, the cottages had been purchased by individuals and moved to private lots. (How quickly they did things then!)

Only a handful of the cottages survive and most have been expanded and altered similar to this one on 24th Avenue.