Whittier Mansion is a historic building at 2090 Jackson Street in San Francisco, California, US. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also a San Francisco Designated Landmark.
History
Designed by architect Edward Robinson Swain and built in 1896 by the family of financier William Franklin Whittier, it contains 30 rooms.[2][3] Construction included steel-reinforced brick walls and a facing of Arizona red sandstone.[2]
The building was a private residency, and it later served as the German Consulate for the German Reich in 1941, during the rise of Nazi Germany,[4] after World War II in 1950 the house was seized and sold at auction and returned to a private residency for many years,[2] followed by the house being occupied by the California Historical Society (1956–1991).[5][6] It is purported to be haunted.[7]
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c "San Francisco Landmark #75: Whittier Mansion". noehill.com. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
- ^ Michelson, Alan. "Edward Robinson Swain". Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), University of Washington Libraries. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
- ^ Historic American Buildings Survey (1 May 1980). Historic American buildings, California. Garland Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8240-3197-8.
- ^ Hills of San Francisco. Nourse Publishing Company. 1959.
- ^ Lenkert, Erika (13 June 2006). Frommer's Memorable Walks in San Francisco. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 92–. ISBN 978-0-470-03886-4.
- ^ Riccio, Dolores (1 June 1989). Haunted Houses U.S.A. Simon and Schuster. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-0-671-66258-5.
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