Category:Mark Hopkins mansion
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Despite the thriftiness of Mark Hopkins, Jr., his wife managed eventually to persuade him to build an ornate mansion at the top of Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, close to the mansions of other Central Pacific founders. The construction commenced in 1875. The architects were the prominent San Francisco firm of Wright and Sanders and the project manager was architectural engineer William Wallace Barbour Sheldon, who worked for Hopkins under the Southern Pacific Improvement Company.
By then Hopkins was having health problems, and died aboard a company train near Yuma, Arizona in 1878, the house not yet completed. Eventually finished and occupied by Mary, the structure burned to the ground in a fire caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The Mark Hopkins Hotel (currently InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco) was built in its place in 1926.
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Media in category "Mark Hopkins mansion"
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Hopkins Art Institute (Hopkins Mansion).jpg 2,763 × 1,904; 905 KB
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Mark Hopkins mansion c1880.jpg 1,416 × 946; 256 KB
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Mark Hopkins mansion from Pine Street, c1890.jpg 1,008 × 681; 316 KB
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Mark Hopkins mansion interior view.jpg 735 × 936; 228 KB
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Mark Hopkins mansion interior.jpg 1,008 × 893; 678 KB
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Mark Hopkins mansion, California Street carriage entrance.jpg 888 × 1,099; 118 KB
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Mark Hopkins mansion, California Street, 1890s.jpg 991 × 776; 223 KB
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Mark Hopkins mansion.jpg 600 × 434; 51 KB
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Residence of the Late Mark Hopkins, Nob Hills, S.F., Cal, from Robert N. Dennis cropped.png 1,165 × 1,211; 2.16 MB
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Ruins of Mark Hopkins mansion, 1906.jpg 883 × 584; 179 KB