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The James C. Flood Mansion is a historic mansion at 1000 California Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, USA. Now home of the Pacific-Union Club , it was built in 1886 as the townhouse for James C. Flood , a 19th-century silver baron.
Destroyed by fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake [4] [5] David B Colton Mansion 1872 Neo-classical: S. C. Bugbee & Son: San Francisco: Later bought by Collis Potter Huntington. Was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake: Leland Stanford Mansion 1876 Italianate: S. C. Bugbee & Son: San Francisco: Was destroyed in the 1906 ...
The development of the mixed-mode Los Angeles Metro Rail began as two separate undertakings. The Southern California Rapid Transit District was planning a new subway along Wilshire Boulevard while the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission was also designing a light rail system utilizing a former Pacific Electric corridor. The light rail ...
Spreckels Mansion is a French Classical mansion located in the Pacific Heights neighborhood at 2080 Washington Street in San Francisco, California, [2] [3] built c. 1912-1913. . The three-story mansion is in a French Baroque Chateau-style, designed by George Adrian Applegarth (1876–1972) and Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. (of MacDonald & Applegarth firm), and built by businessman Adolph B. Sprecke
[3] [4] Havens designed several building in downtown San Francisco. The Havens Mansion reflects architecture of 1880s in San Francisco's "Mansion Row" and a still intact carriage house. [2] [4] Some sources list the building as Second Empire style (despite no mansard roof), [2] [4] and others as an Italianate style and/or Stick style. [5]
Chicago–Los Angeles [1930] 1927–1938 Argonaut: Southern Pacific: Los Angeles–New Orleans [1952] 1926–1932; 1936–1958 Aristocrat: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: Denver–Chicago [1933] 1930–1941 Arizona Limited: Rock Island and Southern Pacific: Chicago, Illinois-Phoenix, Arizona: 1940–1942 Arkansas and Texas Mail: St. Louis–San ...
Then, roughly five years ago, San Francisco Magazine published a story on iceberg homes. The author wrote: “In Palo Alto, as in many other affluent yet zoning-constrained enclaves around the Bay ...
Burr Mansion, or Burr House, is a historic house built in 1875, and is located at 1772 Vallejo Street in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco, California. [2] It was commissioned by Ephraim Willard Burr , the 8th mayor of San Francisco, for his son upon his marriage engagement.