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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.
William Westerfeld, a German-born confectioner, arrived in San Francisco in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he had established a chain of bakeries. By the 1880s, he had established a chain of bakeries. He hired local architect Henry Geilfuss [ 3 ] [ 4 ] to design for his family of six a 28-room mansion with an adjoining rose garden and carriage house.
It is located on the ground floor of a new multi-use facility, which includes an adult day health center, affordable senior housing, retail space and a large community meeting room. The new library is approximately 7,500 square feet (700 m 2 ), and is the 27th branch of the San Francisco Public Library.
Toland Hall in 1887. Toland Hall on Stockton was the first home of the school, before its transfer to the Parnassus campus. The University of California, San Francisco traces its history to Hugh Toland, a South Carolina surgeon who found great success and wealth after moving to San Francisco in 1852. [16]
UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights is located on the main campus of UCSF and includes the 600-bed teaching hospital of the same name along with the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, extensive research labs, the main branch of the UCSF Library, and is home to the UCSF School of Medicine, UCSF School of Nursing, UCSF School of Dentistry, and UCSF School of Pharmacy.
Floor plan of a basic central-passage house. The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward into the 19th century in the United States. [1] [2]
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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