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Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States [4] [5] that is known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions. Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco's upper class .
The mansion was built by James C. Flood, who made his fortune in the silver mines of Nevada. His inspiration for the building was the Gilded Age mansions he saw on the East Coast of the United States, so he commissioned one from architect Augustus Laver. Completed in 1888, it was one of his homes until his death in 1889, and was occupied by his ...
San Francisco History: Buried Ships: 6: ... James C. Flood Mansion. November 13, 1966 ... Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District.
The James C. Flood Mansion at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California. Built in 1886 as a townhouse for James C. Flood, it is the only Nob Hill mansion to structurally survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire (its stone walls survived but the interior was gutted). It is owned by the Pacific-Union Club.
Was the third mansion of P.T Barnum, was demolished in 1889 for his new mansion, Marina. Samuel Clemens House (Mark Twain) 1874 Victorian Gothic: Edward Tuckerman Potter: Hartford: Today, a museum Marina 1889 Romanesque and Queen Anne: Longstaff and Hurd: Bridgeport: Was the fourth and last mansion of P.T Barnum in Bridgeport, was demolished in ...
House Beautiful has rounded up a list of all 18 historic house museums that are featured throughout The Gilded Age's first season—all of which can be visited and toured in person.
The Castle—aka the John Paine Mansion—was deemed the "grandest house" in Troy, New York when it was built in 1896. In its long history, the mansion has served as a private residence, a college ...
Since the tower of the mansion was at the time the highest point in San Francisco, Eadweard Muybridge chose to shoot his 1877 panoramic photograph of the city from this location. Mary Sherwood Hopkins, on her death in 1891 at the age of 73, left the Nob Hill mansion and a $70 million estate to her second husband, Edward Francis Searles.