Standing at the corner of Washington and Gough Streets, across from Lafayette Park and next door to the Spreckels Mansion, aka romance novelist Danielle Steel’s longtime home, the striking pink Beaux Arts tower at 2006 Washington Street is among the finest apartment houses in San Francisco. Completed in 1924, the 12-story building in posh Pacific Heights was designed by Conrad Meussdorffer, who also designed at least two more of the city’s most elegant and coveted apartment houses, the St. Regis apartments, just half a block away, and at the northeast corner of Alta Plaza Park, 2500 Steiner Street. Sprawling across ... (full story)