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Spreckels Mansion

Spreckels Mansion Review

Shrouded behind tall juniper hedges at the corner of lovely winding, brick Octavia Street, overlooking Lafayette Park, the estate was built for sugar heir Adolph Spreckels and his wife Alma. Mrs. Spreckels was so pleased with her house that she commissioned George Applegarth to design another building in a similar vein: the Legion of Honor. One of the city's great iconoclasts, Alma Spreckels was the model for the bronze figure atop the Victory Monument in Union Square. Today this house belongs to prolific romance novelist Danielle Steel.

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  • Address: 2080 Washington St., at Octavia St.Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CA 94109 | Map It
  • Location: Pacific Heights

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