They did keep a lion-stained glass window though, now on display outside. 'We would have loved to preserve more of the bar, but it was in such bad shape it wasn't possible,' Mr.
'It was a building that hadn’t been touched in 50 years,' said Tim Murphy of Tim Murphy Design Associates, who purchased the building in March 2017 for $3.5 million from Ellis’s estate, PropertyShark records show. 'We've gone from preppy bar to a dance bar to a hippie bar to leather and back to preppy.' 'The Lion has gone through a lot of changes since its opening 20 years ago,' Ellis said to the Bay Area Reporter in 1989. More: A Renaissance-Style Mansion in an Exclusive Spot in Florida More recently, the bar had catered to more of a straight clientele, following the decline of the 'gayborhood,' according to local news reports. It housed the bar from 1968 until its closure two years ago following the death of its owner, Kelly Ellis. The Victorian building in the city’s affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood hit the market last week. Lion Pub, a San Francisco gay bar that closed in 2016 after 48 years, has been reinvented as a $5.995 million single-family home.
