C. A. Belden House, Victorian residence in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, United States.
This three-story Queen Anne style residence features asymmetrical facades, elaborate decorative woodwork, two corner turrets with conical roofs, fish-scale shingles, and carved gable pediments facing Lafayette Park.
Walter J. Mathews designed the house at 2004 Gough Street for Charles A. Belden, treasurer of an importing company, and it was completed in 1889; the Belden family lived there until 1900. John A. Buck bought it in 1907 and had the neighbouring house at 2010 Gough Street demolished; the Bucks stayed until 1933, after which it housed elderly women. In 1967 John Fell Stevenson, a son of Adlai Stevenson II, and his wife bought it and lived there until 1973.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 1983, while its owners were restoring it. Its style has been called "a full flowering of Queen Anne exuberance", and the carved facade has been compared to patterns appliqued on a Victorian sampler.
Located at 2004 Gough Street on approximately 0.2 acres, the property offers views of Lafayette Park and remains a preserved example of 19th-century residential design in Pacific Heights.
The house displays mythological creature panels on its second-floor porch and sunburst motifs flanking third-floor windows, showcasing ornate Victorian craftsmanship rarely found in contemporary residential architecture.
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