The Building
The 1950 Gough Street Apartments were built for Marian Realty Co. in 1926 by the architect Herman C. Baumann.  Baumann was a prolific designer who was responsible for more than 500 apartment buildings in San Francisco between 1924 and 1937 (see below).  The building was converted to condominiums in 1985.

The Architect
San Francisco was extremely fortunate during the building boom of the 1920's to have H. C. Baumann practicing here. The growth of apartment living in the City spread from the rebuilt Downtown area to the City's 'Western Addition'. The economics of residential property was such that many Victorian structures, particularly large detached houses on good-sized corner lots became expensive to maintain and inefficient in their use of space, even when subdivided into apartments. This was particularly true in Pacific Heights, an area which had been largely spared in the fire that followed the earthquake of April 18, 1906. 
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