[3] The house is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since July 6, 1974;[1][4] and one of the National Register of Historic Places since May 21, 1979.

[2] The Mish House was designed by architects McDougall and Sons, and originally built in 1885 at 407 Divisadero Street.

[6][4] In 1975 and 1976, the house was restored by a local preservation group, in hopes of improving the neighborhood.

[8] Phenes Mish (1825–1895) was born in Poznań, Kingdom of Prussia (now Poland) and had owned a dry goods importing business called Mish and Sons, he also served as President of Congregation Sherith Israel.

Lily Schlesinger (née Mish), daughter of Phenes and Sarah, was raised in the Mish House and became an opera singer and whistler; and her daughter was Irene Anderson (née Schlesinger), was a dancer and one of the founders of the Anderson Sisters School of Dancing in San Francisco.