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San Francisco s bizarre history of (literally) moving houses FacebookTwitterEmail A Victorian home being moved on Steiner Street via horse power, 1908, San Francisco.Archival / Unknown Mark Twain didn t actually complain about the weather in San Francisco (the person who coined, The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco has never claimed the quote), but he did have another gripe with the city. An old house got loose from her moorings last night and drifted down Sutter Street towards Montgomery, the famed humorist wrote in the Daily Morning Call in 1886. For several days the vagrant two-story frame house has been wondering listlessly about Commercial Street, above this office, and she has finally stopped in the middle of the thoroughfare, and is staring dejectedly toward Montgomery street, as if she would like to go down there, but really do not feel equal to the exertion. ....