“San Francisco’s most beloved architectural features are its Victorian-style mansions, with ice-cream colours and frosting flourishes that’ll leave you craving birthday cake.” (Lonely Planet Guide).
Here are some of the “mansions” we have found on walks around Laura and Arend’s place. Some of these buildings have survived the 1906 earthquake and fire:
Nobby Clarke’s Folly, on the corner of Douglass and Caselli Streets, is a Queen Anne mansion built in 1892, with Landmark Status (something like Australian Heritage Listing). Originally a single five-storey dwelling with 45 rooms, it has now been converted into 15 one-bedroom apartments.
Laura expected to see Harry Potter at one of the windows.
Another building with Landmark Status is the pink Miller-Joost house, built in 1867 by Adam Miller, a German immigrant, carpenter and dairy rancher (obviously he was successful at these occupations.)
As we were walking either up or down some hill, a friendly local directed us to this house, which had once been a church. Its renovations had featured on the TV program “This Old House”.
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