The Tenderloin Museum at 398 Eddy St. has been shut since June 27, when water poured down from the Cadillac Hotel above it. Now it's raising $150,000 on Givebutter to repair the damage and hopes to reopen this fall.

The Tenderloin Museum sits on the ground floor at 398 Eddy Street, and its doors have been shut since late June. According to reporting by Kelcie Lee of Bay City News in Local News Matters, water flowed down from the Cadillac Hotel — the four-story building the museum occupies — into the museum's lobby and exhibition space on June 27, causing what staff have called severe damage. The museum announced early this month that it is raising money to fix it, in hopes of reopening this fall.

The ask is $150,000, collected through the fundraising platform Givebutter, according to Mission Local. The museum has not put a public dollar figure on the damage itself, but the work described runs past cosmetics — ceiling tiles, walls, electrical, plumbing and fire-safety systems, per KRON4 — and the museum says it also wants to add improvements to guard against the next flood. "The repairs needed are more expensive than we first thought," museum officials said in a statement reported by Mission Local. "Additionally, we need to make improvements that will help protect the museum from future water damage."

The address is worth sitting with. The Tenderloin Museum, run by the nonprofit Uptown Tenderloin Inc., opened here in 2015 inside the Cadillac Hotel, a 1907 structure that is San Francisco Landmark No. 176 and one of the neighborhood's anchors — roughly 165 single-room-occupancy units bought in the late 1970s by the nonprofit Reality House West, making it, by the city's account, the first nonprofit-owned SRO on the West Coast. A museum built to tell the Tenderloin's story is now closed by an ordinary building failure in exactly the kind of aging residential hotel it exists to document.

The museum has floated reopening sooner if donations come in fast. For now, anyone walking the north side of Eddy between Leavenworth and Hyde passes a dark storefront where the exhibits used to be, and a building still drying out.