Cliff House, San Francisco
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The Cliff House is a neo-classical style building perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach. Located on the West Side of San Francisco in the city's Outer Richmond neighborhoo
Cliff House from Ocean Beach, 2010
First Cliff House, c. 1868
Second Cliff House, c. 1900
Third Cliff House, c. 1909
Adolph Sutro
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Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro was a German-American engineer, politician and philanthropist who served as the 24th mayor of San Francisco from 1895 until 1897. Born a German Jew, he moved to Virginia C
Cliff House, San Francisco
…toll road, now Geary Street, was purchased by the city for approximately $25,000. In 1883, after a few years of downturn, the Cliff House was bought by Adolph Sutro, who had made a fortune in silver by solving the problems of ventilating and draining the mines of Nevada's Comstock Lode. After a few years of quiet…
Portrait by Mathew Brady c. 1865–1880
Sutro, his brother, and cousins
Entrance to Sutro Tunnel
Adolph Sutro & Ladies of National Medical Convention inside the Sutro Baths, June 8, 1894