What we've learned about Larkspur
Baltimore Canyon holds the oldest housing we touch in this corner of the county. Much of it went up between 1895 and 1915 as summer cabins, then got insulated and added onto over the following century. Rooms are small, ceilings are low, floors are original fir, and the whole thing sits under second-growth redwood beside the creek. Cleaning one is slow, careful work with no straight run anywhere for a vacuum cord.
Down on the flat, Magnolia Avenue and the streets around it are a different century of building and much quicker going. Out toward Larkspur Landing the stock changes again — condominiums and newer townhomes with garages, elevators and shared corridors. All three get quoted from the same room-count form, but the hours each one takes are not the same, and we would rather explain that than surprise you.
The housing stock in Larkspur
This city keeps one of the oldest surviving residential districts in the county, and it shows. Canyon houses are wood-framed, one to three bedrooms, often on posts over a slope, with original fir floors, painted board walls and steep interior stairs. The downtown flats hold 1920s to 1950s bungalows with detached garages. Larkspur Landing brings 1980s-onward condominiums with tile entries and carpeted bedrooms. Persistent damp is a canyon problem and not a flatland one.