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Portion of the April 1878 panoramic photograph of San Francisco by Eadweard Muybridge showing the spite fence constructed by Charles Crocker. Charles Crocker, a railroad investor and owner of a house on Nob Hill in San Francisco, built a high fence around his neighbor's house, Nicholas Yung, spoiling his view, after the neighbor held out for many times the market value of the property.
Charles Crocker (September 16, 1822 – August 14, 1888) ... Nob Hill and the 40 foot tall spite fence. Crocker built a mansion on Nob Hill, San Francisco.
A historical example of a San Francisco nail house (see below) resulted in railroad investor Charles Crocker building a spite fence around a house owned by undertaker Nicolas Yung in the late 1870s, after Yung refused to sell his small property to Crocker, who was consolidating lots on which to build a mansion.
Here in Massachusetts, there is actually a Spite Fence Law, created in 1887 which states a fence is an illegal "spite fence" if: "A fence or other structure in the nature of a fence which ...
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The Crocker family was a wealthy American family based in California. Its fortune was primarily earned through the entrepreneurship of Charles Crocker , a tycoon who co-founded the Central Pacific Railroad [ 1 ] and acquired a controlling interest in the Southern Pacific Railroad system.
New Jersey's historic Crocker Mansion in Mahwah was officially put back on the market this month after it was seized from a billionaire fraudster in 2023. The 120-year-old estate at 675 Ramapo ...
L-R: Mary, Templeton, and Jennie Crocker, 1897 illustration adapted from an 1894 photograph by I. W. Taber. Charles Templeton Crocker was born September 2, 1884, in San Francisco, California, the only son and second (of three) children born to Charles Frederick (Fred) & Jennie Crocker (née Easton); Templeton's paternal grandfather was Charles Crocker, one of the Big Four railroad magnates.