The following year on September 14, 1973, Alvah Burlingame 3rd and his sister, Madeline Burlingame Schier Nelson sold the Heights house and the adjacent lot to Lily and Joel Hoffman  in whose hands the property remains in 2003.

  The Hoffmans (he is a psychiatrist; she a sociologist) rented the Drum house--only a few doors away--during the summer of 1972. However, they never knew what lay down the driveway at 10 Bay Avenue because of the overgrowth of trees and shrubs.  The original 1908 vision of house and landscape is today the same spectacular view of the Bay from nearly every window and porch of the house.  

  The house quickly became the center of family life for this New York City couple with two young children, and remains so today, used and enjoyed by their children, Margaret, a physician, and Jared, president of the Knitting Factory, along with their respective spouses and children.