Her parents Frank Nunzio Alioto and Frances Alioto purchased the home in 1973. Frank Alito’s cousin, Joseph ALioto, served eight years as mayor of city.

Welcome home! Guests enter into a bright room featuring an etched plaster ceiling, iron banister staircase and wooden details from top to bottom

End to end: The other side of the home’s front entrance is seen while beneath the glow of crystal chandeliers

Sea shell: A view from the top of the stairs further shows off its splendor and no lack of luxurious detail

Dining: The formal dining room is seen here, capable of holding at least two dozen guests according to the current owner

Intricate details: Silver candles and other ornate decorations are seen posted around the home

Side room: The breakfast nook features tiled flooring below intricately painted walls and doors opening up to the outside

Family room: Here a stage provides for live entertainment among a wet bar and backdrop over San Francisco

Library: It’s been suggested that this library could be changed into the master bedroom with it featuring captivating views and a wood-burning fireplace

Room with a view: A seat at this writing desk particularly shows off the home’s $16.5 million views

Paneling: One corner of the home’s majestic vaulted ceilings is seen here, with the white porcine-like top draping into the wood paneled walls

Kitchen: Little has changed in the kitchen as well as in the bathrooms but it’s all said to have been well taken care of and in perfectly running order

Bottoms up: Though the home’s kitchen is seen here with a side wine rack it also features a wine cellar in the very bottom floor

Continuing around the corner of the first floor, a library with a wood-burning fireplace similarly offers views over Alcatraz. In addition to a formal dining room, it also features a breakfast nook.

Heading up a wooden staircase featuring an iron bannister – one of three staircases in the house – guests are welcomed by a golden stained glass window overlooking the second-floor landing area.

‘There’s a (cherub’s) face in the glass. It’s unique; it’s like a signature,’ Lamson said of the piece.  ‘I understand redoing kitchens and bathrooms, but I hope those period details are left.’

Other period details include the home’s vaulted ceilings crowning over similarly arched doors and windows, and crystal chandeliers.

On this floor, two bedrooms are accessed as well as a terrace.

Going higher to the third floor, the master bedroom is found featuring his and her dressing rooms and bathrooms.

Sights: The Palace of Fine Arts is seen on the right in this spectacular view taken from the home

End-to-end: From this side of the home the Golden Gate Bridge can be perfectly seen

Alcatraz: The island holding Alcatraz is also seen here, perfectly seen beyond the rooftops

Second floor: Guests are greeted by this golden stained glass window once advancing to the second floor of rooms

Bedroom: One of the home’s bedrooms dressed in pink and white is seen with its own amazing views on either side

Another bedroom, one six in the home, is seen here with its own bathroom on the side

Sneak peak: The master bedroom is seen here with its own side view peaking into the Golden Gate Bridge

Extra space: Opening out of the master bed is this living room for the lucky homeowners to further enjoy

No comfort missed: Across from the master bed and living room area is its own fireplace and just beyond that the closets

Details: Chiseled white marble over one of the home’s fireplaces is seen here, one of dozens of period details left in the home

Closet space: the master bedroom features his and her dressing rooms and bathrooms

Dressing up: A vanity room, decorated in recent purchases at Chanel, is seen shining with the help of a little chandelier and walls of mirrors

Three more bedrooms are separated from the master bedroom by a long gallery.

Back downstairs, the lowest level of the four-level home features an unfinished basement that’s available to the full imagination of its future owners.

One level up is the ‘au pair level’, as it’s so called, featuring a bedroom, office, storage area, laundry – with connecting laundry chute, wine cellar and kitchen with an accommodating private entrance.

The five-car garage is also accessible from this level.

The home offers no backyard of grass, but does offer a gated portico, terrace and courtyard.

The home is being listed through Sotheby’s International Realty.

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Oh my ! love this home, but wouldn’t live in SF for any reason.

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BeforeTheStorm
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Castle in the Sky, United States,
28/4/2013 01:38

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Just stunning.

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bunnytooth
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baltimore,
27/4/2013 23:10

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Yes, PLEASE!

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CutieButCranky
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Chicago, United States,
27/4/2013 21:46

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This would be an excellent time for The Big One to finally hit. It was their decision to build all that expensive real estate near a major fault line.

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milwaukeebroad
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Haifa,
27/4/2013 20:56

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I drive by this house a lot, it’s quite beautiful to see and the neighborhood is EXPENSIVE. Pacific Heights is expensive – the views are magnificent and the house enormous for SF with an enormous price tag too. Envy for the agent that gets to sell this beauty – can you imagine that commission???

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Julie
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San Francisco, United States,
27/4/2013 20:46

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Four floors. Where is the elevator?

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Ricardoh
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Walnut Creek CA USA,
27/4/2013 20:42

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Looking at these pictures I actually transported myself there… Breathtaking !!! Ahhh nice

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Dallas75
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Dallas, United States,
27/4/2013 20:41

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Wasn’t a similar mansion featured in Bullitt, if not the same one?

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cap77
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Waltham,
27/4/2013 19:56

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Now, that is IMPRESSIVE!!!

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James V.
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Maryland, United States,
27/4/2013 19:46

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My oh my.. look at that gorgeous view!!! I’ll take it! Just give me a few hundred years to save the down payment..

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Kristi
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Indianapolis,
27/4/2013 18:07

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