Nancy Pelosi's House: Pacific Heights, a St. Helena Vineyard, and a Georgetown Condo

Nancy Pelosi has represented San Francisco in the House since 1987 and was the first woman to hold the Speaker's gavel, from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. On November 6, 2025, at 85, she posted a video saying she would not run again, and her final term ends in January 2027. Where she lives has not changed with any of that. Her annual financial disclosure lists the same three properties it has for years: a house in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, a vineyard outside St. Helena in the Napa Valley, and a condominium on the Georgetown waterfront in Washington, DC.

The San Francisco house is the one people ask about, and it is the one people get wrong. The photo that circulates under her name shows a turreted 1894 mansion with a bay view and a $23.9M sale price. FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and Snopes have all traced that house to a different owner. Her real home is a two-story house from 1938 a few blocks away, bought in September 2007, eight months into her first term as Speaker. That is the house an intruder broke into on October 28, 2022.

The precise address stays behind the ropes. For the parcel, the permit history, and the map pin, see Nancy Pelosi's Pacific Heights home profile on Velvet Ropes.

Three homes at a glance

• San Francisco: a two-story house in Pacific Heights, built in 1938. The assessor's roll dates the Pelosis' purchase to September 2007.
• St. Helena: a vineyard of about 16 acres in the Napa Valley, bought from architect Beverly Willis in 1990. Napa County carries it as a vineyard with two residences.
• Washington, DC: a condominium at Washington Harbour, the Arthur Cotton Moore complex on the Georgetown waterfront, bought in 1999.
• Status: all three are on her most recent financial disclosure. No sale or move has been reported as of September 4, 2026.

The mansion in the meme is not hers

In December 2018 a photo of a hilltop mansion behind a high white wall spread with a caption calling it Pelosi's home, in the middle of the fight over a border wall. The house in the picture is on Pacific Avenue in Pacific Heights. It was designed by E. A. Hermann and built in 1894, Forbes toured it in 2013 as the most expensive house for sale in San Francisco, and it sold in 2015 for $23.9M.

FactCheck.org ran down the owner on December 14, 2018. The property belongs to a limited liability company, and the company's lawyer confirmed that neither Pelosi nor any of her immediate family are involved. The reporter's other test was simpler: Pelosi's own house appears on her financial disclosures, and the mansion does not. PolitiFact reached the same answer the day before, rated the wall claim Pants on Fire, and pointed out that the street view of her actual house shows no wall at all. Snopes traced the confusion to that 2013 Forbes tour, which mentioned that Pelosi lived in the neighborhood.

The house she does own is the kind Pacific Heights filled in with after its mansion era. The assessor's historical roll records a two-story single-family house from 1938, zoned RH-1, the city's category for one house per lot. By 1902 the neighborhood already held well over a third of the families in the city's social register, the published list of who counted in San Francisco society, and after the 1906 earthquake the richest of them built fewer new mansions in town and kept country houses down the peninsula instead. The 1938 house went up in the quieter neighborhood that shift left behind.

The permit record tells you what changed. In 2000, seven years before the Pelosis bought it, a permit described facade changes, a large roof dormer, and a fourth-floor studio; the permit is recorded as expired, which can mean the work was finished or that it never was. The Pelosi years show two filings: a remodel of that top-floor studio in 2019, and the replacement of some rotted wood windows in 2024.

What the house has drawn

For a house with no wall, it has seen a lot of the street. Anti-war demonstrators kept a multi-day vigil outside in 2007. In August 2009 the Speaker seated about 170 donors for dinner on the back lawn, the opening night of a two-day weekend that moved to a Napa winery the next morning. On New Year's Day 2021 someone left a pig's head on the sidewalk and spray-painted the garage door over the size of the pandemic relief checks, and later that year activists taped an eviction notice to the door over the federal moratorium.

Then, in the early hours of October 28, 2022, a man broke into the house while the Speaker was in Washington and attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, then 82. Paul Pelosi was seriously injured and recovered. What followed ran through two court systems.

In federal court, a jury convicted David DePape in November 2023 of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on a family member of a federal official. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley sentenced him to 30 years on May 17, 2024, then reopened the hearing on May 28 because he had not been given his chance to speak, and imposed the same 30 years. On March 25, 2026, the Ninth Circuit turned down his appeal and let both the conviction and the sentence stand.

In state court, a San Francisco jury convicted him separately in June 2024 on five counts, including aggravated kidnapping and first-degree burglary, and on October 29, 2024, Judge Harry Dorfman sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole, to run alongside the federal term. Three further state counts, attempted murder among them, had been thrown out by the trial judge because a state statute bars a second prosecution for acts already punished in federal court. Prosecutors appealed that, and on June 30, 2026, California's First District Court of Appeal sided with the trial judge.

Paul Pelosi's statement, read in court by his daughter, began with the date. He said the last peaceful sleep he had was October 28, 2022.

The vineyard an architect built for herself

The Napa Valley property was not built for a politician. Beverly Willis, the architect of the San Francisco Ballet Building, designed it in 1983 as her own country place and called it River Run. She put the house, a guesthouse, and the pool on the highest knoll, the one farthest from the entrance, in the manner of a Palladian villa, then turned the cottage at the front into a gatehouse and the big barn into a three-paddock horse stable. Willis sold it to the Pelosis in 1990. For the parcel record, see Nancy Pelosi's St. Helena vineyard profile.

The county's paperwork does not know the house Willis built. Napa County's own property map carries the place as a vineyard with two residences and dates the two structures to 1958 and 2006, neither of which is 1983. We could not confirm which building carries which year. The likeliest reading is that the 1958 date belongs to the farmhouse she remodeled as the gatehouse and that her main house was later re-dated in the record.

The wine never happened. In 2005 the Pelosis won county approval for a 5,000-gallon winery, hobby scale by Napa standards, about 25,000 bottles a year, with a small storage cave dug into the hill, five employees, and tastings for 10 people a week. A neighbor warned the hearing that the country lane leading in runs a foot deep when the river floods. Nothing was built. The vineyard grows Cabernet Sauvignon, and her disclosure filed in May 2025 lists the property as a home and vineyard earning grape-sales income, with no wine sales; the filing made on May 15, 2026 reads the same way. In 2014 it was Paul Pelosi at the planning commission, fighting a 30,000-gallon winery proposed next door on Silverado Trail and mailing neighbors about the traffic. He got a two-week delay, not the month he asked for.

That lane crosses the Napa River on a 1913 stone bridge that has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005, and steelhead got a rebuilt passage under it in 2011.

Georgetown, on the water

In Washington the Pelosis have lived since 1999 at Washington Harbour, the curved postmodern complex Arthur Cotton Moore set on the Georgetown waterfront in 1986, on ground that had been a cement plant. A 2008 editorial noted that Paul Pelosi alone appears as the owner in the District's property tax database. When Roll Call surveyed where Speakers have lived, in 2016, it put her in chic digs on the Georgetown waterfront and Paul Ryan on a cot in his Longworth office. The map pin is on Nancy Pelosi's Georgetown condo profile.

The one fact about the building that reaches the Pelosis' front door is the river. The complex sits behind a wall of floodgates that take hours to raise, and in April 2011 the Potomac came up before they were all up. Water went into the garage, the basement, and the first floor, residents left when the power failed, and the owners spent the next year and a half rebuilding.

What January 2027 changes, and what it does not

Pelosi's seat is already being decided without her: two Democrats, State Senator Scott Wiener and Supervisor Connie Chan, came out of the June 2, 2026 primary and meet in November. None of that touches the houses. Her retirement announcement said nothing about moving, none of the three has come on the market, and the Georgetown condo is the only one whose reason for being is a job that ends in January. We will update this page if a filing says otherwise.

The addresses themselves

How we handle the exact address of a house someone still lives in, and why it is the one thing we keep behind the ropes, is in our note on celebrity addresses. The rest of the front doors we cover are in the celebrity homes hub.