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The ‘Crown Jewel of the Presidio’ Is Sitting Pretty on Its Perch

The family room with one of the home’s four fireplaces in a home at 2535 Presidio Drive in Mission Hills. Photo courtesy of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
The view from the living room to the dining room in a home at 2535 Presidio Drive in Mission Hills. Photo courtesy of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

Next year will mark the 110th anniversary of when the subdivision map for Mission Hills was first filed with the City of San Diego. The area is among the most beautiful and eclectic in all of San Diego. It is located in the hills above Old Town, west of Hillcrest and bordered by Interstate 5 on its westernmost edge and Interstate 8 on the north.

Among its charms are deep wooded canyons and varying elevations etched by curving streets that wind through ancient trees. Some of the avenues are broad and lined with five-foot-wide sidewalks and others are narrow with houses fronting the streets. Well-maintained stately homes abound, which include neo-classical, tile-roofed haciendas, Mission Revival, small-scale bungalows, mid-century modern, modern and multifamily. Many of the neighborhoods have maintained a “tree theme,” based upon the primary tree found in the areas. Eucalyptus, palm, fig, California pepper and jacaranda trees abound.

There are also an abundance of parks, but the most beautiful is the historic Presidio Park.

The Presidio was the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Coast in 1769. After decades of neglect, the park was rescued from disrepair in 1907 by wealthy department store owner and civic leader George Marston, who originally created a private park. The 40-acre park was donated to the city in 1929.

Right at the upper edge of the entrance to Presidio Park is an elegant estate that overlooks the city, San Diego Bay, Point Loma and the ocean.

Ellen Bryson and her business partner and daughter, Wendy Choisser, of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, have the listing for the 5,823-square-foot, three-story home at 2535 Presidio Drive. Listed at $2.899 million, Bryson refers to the home as the “crown jewel of the Presidio.”

The current owners bought the home 20 years ago and when they decided to sell and enlist Bryson for the job, she held a broker caravan. She said one of the agents who toured the home had worked for the man who built the home in 1986.

“The broker said the owner managed every detail of the construction,” Bryson said. “He hand-picked everything from manufacturers and craftsmen in the U.S.”

The main level has a grand entrance to the living room with 12-inch crown molding, eight sets of leaded glass French doors and two beautiful chandeliers.

Throughout the sophisticated home is an abundance of decorative crown molding, arched stained-glass skylights, beveled-glass windows, marble floors, a domed fresco ceiling and crystal chandeliers.

“Off of the living room is a large dining room that could seat a large party of 10 to 12 people,” said Bryson, who came into real estate after a career in nursing and marketing. “From the dining room there is a swinging door into the kitchen with a butler’s pantry, a large kitchen and a bar you can sit at and have breakfast in the morning.”

From the kitchen is an arched opening into a hallway that leads to a family room with more 12-foot leaded glass French doors with panoramic views of the ocean, the bay, the evening lights, all the way down to SeaWorld.

“You can see three different fireworks displays from the home on the Fourth of July,” said Bryson, who also sits on the board of the Patrons of the Prado. “It’s just so close to everything we have to offer here.”

The home has six bedrooms and eight bathrooms. There is an en suite guest room on the same floor as the family room and a handsome mahogany office that “again has panoramic views of the bay, city and ocean,” Bryson said.

A sweeping spiral mahogany staircase leads downstairs to three abundantly sized, en suite bedrooms. The living room has a seating area with a fireplace, one of four fireplaces in the home.

Bryson said the master suite is larger than most masters and the oversized bath has a sauna, steam room and a sunken tub. That entire floor also has the beautiful leaded glass windows with panoramic views.

“My favorite part of the house, however, is the top floor which is a tower room,” Bryson said. “…it has a domed ceiling and more French doors. If I lived there I would have that as my home office, or a princess room if I had a daughter.”

The house has abundant balconies that wrap all the way around the home to capitalize on the view. The owners hosted food and wine parties outside on the terraces. After the festivities, the guests would go to the lower terrace to enjoy the black bottom pool and spa.

“Shopping and restaurants just abound in the area, which reminds me, there is a wine cellar in the home that has room for 600 bottles of wine, or as I always tell people who don’t drink, you could always put 300 pairs of shoes in there.”

Bryson said her clients had watched this home for quite a few years for it to come on the market and when it did, they purchased it immediately.

“They have loved it ever since,” Bryson said. “Now the children are grown and they are going to try something else at this point in life and go onto the next part of their journey.”

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