A rustic log cabin in one of the most expensive zip codes in the Bay area sells cheaply

The property, at 7135 Pinehaven Road, includes three adjacent plots on 25,000 square meters of land.

“It’s a very unique property, but it’s not in great shape,” said listing agent Nick Flageollet. “I found an interesting story on the spot, in the 1930s, there was a fire.”

The fire was reported in the Oakland Tribune on October 23, 1933. But the cabin, built in the 1890s, somehow survived. It is likely that the “destroyed” house mentioned will be a second building on the same plot.

Four years later, another historic fire that burned 9 square miles of the Oakland Hills – including the steep terrain where the house is located – made headlines, but again, the log cabin on Pinehaven survived.

Archives show that the 1937 fire started when a fire in a music teacher’s yard spiraled out of control on Pinewood Road on September 25, 1937. For the first six hours, the fire burned over the western edge of Pinehaven County to Broadway Terrace until a point just below Skyline Boulevard and back on another canyon to the west.

The cabin is now described as a “considerable collapse” and could be a ruin, unless an innovative renovator can keep it standing, as it has done for 130 years.

The property is represented by Nick Flageollet; find the list here.