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October 1960 SOUTH ELEVATION - Spreckels Mansion, 2080 Washington Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
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Boucher, Jack E.

Related names:

Spreckels, Adolph Bernard
Applegarth, George
Title
October 1960 SOUTH ELEVATION - Spreckels Mansion, 2080 Washington Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Depicted place California; San Francisco County; San Francisco
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS CAL,38-SANFRA,74-1
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Notes
  • Significance: Large and handsome Francophile mansions, built by Adolph B. Spreckels ca. 1912-1913 on a dramatic viewpoint in San Francisco's exclusive Pacific Heights area, has long occupied a prominent visual and social role in the city. It is one of the few truly grand residences in a town which has always prided itself on social elegance, but has signally failed to match the destroyed wooden palaces of the 19th century with more substantial mansions in the 20th century. Placed at the corner of an unusually large city lot (virtually half a block of choice real estate), it looks above its neighbors in chaste classicizing French Baroque beauty - symbolic of the cultural and social prominence of its chatelaine, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels...
  • Survey number: HABS CA-1906
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1913 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0726.photos.016969p
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Camera location 37° 46′ 30″ N, 122° 25′ 05.99″ W  Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap info

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37°46'30"N, 122°25'5"W

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