Pray for the soul of Riverside

Just punning around, sort of, but 8 Chapel Lane, listed in April at $4.495 million, went to highest and best immediately, and has just sold to a New Jersey couple for $4.7. Chapel Lane! That’s not quite the shock it might have been — the real shock came when it sold new in 2017 for $3.820 — but not long ago, Chapel was one of the few streets in SoPo Riverside that offered “reasonable” housing. No more.

By the way, Chapel Lane is so named because, before it moved up the road to new digs in the 50s, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church was located there. Presumably, the congregation moved out when Italian and Irish Catholics moved in, but that’s just speculation on my part.

And Ada’s was the post office.