[5] The Atkinson House is two-stories tall and located at 1032 Broadway in San Francisco, California.

[6] The house was walking distance to the Yerba Buena Cove, and was located on the top of a hill that originally had access via a zig-zagged foot path.

[4] It was built in 1853 for Joseph H. Atkinson and his family; he was a brick contractor and a partial owner of the Lone Mountain Cemetery.

[8][9] Between 1853 and 1854, a partnership formed between Joseph H. Atkinson (brick contractor), Charles Homer (a general contractor on projects such as ), and William H. Ranlett (an architect) in order to design and build their own three houses in the area now known as the Vallejo Street Crest Historic District in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.

[4] In 2015, the house was for sale, asking price US$12 million; it was 3890 square feet and featured four bedrooms and four and half bathrooms.