This house in San Francisco might be the most insanely decorated house we’ve ever seen. It’s also the most expensive house for sale in Fog City.
And for good reason. Le Petit Trianon is an historic, 20-room house that spans 17,895 square feet. It includes nine bedrooms, six bathrooms, three powder rooms, two kitchens, two wet bars, a ballroom, several offices and a massive central atrium. The mansion also comes with an intriguing history that includes bankruptcy, abandonment and a squatter who christened it his “thug mansion.”
Today, every room is creative and drastically different from the last. And it’s up for sale at $30 million. Want to see what it looks like? Come take a walk though San Francisco’s most expensive (and possibly most colorful) home.
The History
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The home is known as both Le Petit Trianon, and the Koshland Mansion. The mansion was built in 1904 by Marcus Koshland; his family’s business, the Koshland Brothers, was a lucrative wool import and export company. Marcus and his wife traveled to France and were enchanted by Versailles — particularly the Petit Trianon, Marie Antoinette’s chateau built by King Louis XV. When they came back to San Francisco, they had a mini Petit Trianon constructed on Washington Street close to The Presidio.
The History, Continued
Fast forward a century later. Halsey Minor, the guy who founded CNET and co-founded Salesforce.com, purchased the mansion in 2007 for $22 million. Minor was rich; CBS purchased CNET for $1.8 billion in early 2008, and Salesforce.com had gone public with a $110 million IPO in 2004.
But then Minor fell to a one-two punch: the 2008 recession and a battle with depression.
The History, Continued
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Speaking to TNW, Minor says his 2006 divorce caused him to slip into a depression, which made him withdraw from family and friends. Minor poured his money into lawsuits and lawyers until he declared bankruptcy in 2013.
“I didn’t talk to anyone. Often, I didn’t even show up in (bankruptcy) court, because I was basically in my house all the time,” Minor told TNW.
Minor put the home on the market for $25 million in 2012, but the house was in terrible shape for the price. La Petit Trianon sat abandoned and fell into disrepair.
Until one unlikely person moved on in.
A Squatter’s Palace
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By 2015, the home was listed at $17 million. But there didn’t seem to be much interest nor buyer foot traffic in the run-down slice of Versailles, because a 39-year-old man moved on in with ease.
A Squatter’s Palace, Continued
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Jeremiah Kaylor, a homeless man, wandered into the property in 2014 via an unlocked back door.
“When I first saw it, I thought to myself, ‘This is it. This is my headquarters. This is my thug mansion',” Kaylor told the San Francisco Chronicle during a jailhouse interview. Kaylor found the main house barren, but used a ladder to climb in, where he said he lived for over two months.
He also may have been hoping to run into Taylor Swift. It was reported that the singer had been eyeing the mansion for purchase; Kaylor believed he and Swift were soulmates.
Kaylor also believed everything in the house belonged to him.
And a Squatter’s Storefront
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Kaylor also stole approximately $300,000 worth of artwork and sold the pieces to local pawn shops. Most of the pieces were recovered, and Kaylor was eventually arrested, even though he tried to claim ownership of the property under “adverse possession laws,” as he told the Chronicle.
Eventually the home did sell, this time to Ronald Jankov, a venture capitalist and founder of Global Link 1 Capital. Jankov renovated the property, but it wasn’t until 2019 that the house took on its incredible new look.
Every Room Is Different
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But not everything you see comes with the house. Listing agent Joel Goodrich tells us that most of the furniture from the showcase has been removed. Although these designers are just a phone call away.
The Atrium
At the mansion’s heart is a three-story atrium. This one has been designed with a living wall near the stained glass skylight window. It was designed by Brandon Pruett. There is an elevator, but it’s currently inoperable.
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