Mount Sutro
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Mount Sutro is a hill in central San Francisco, California. It was originally named Mount Parnassus.
Mount Sutro, with UCSF and the Sutro Tower, seen from Golden Gate Park.
Eucalyptus trees cover much of Mount Sutro, as seen on its summit.
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
Mount Sutro
…Sutro was within the Rancho San Miguel of Alta California, a Mexican land grant given to Jose de Jesus Noe in 1846. The ranch property was acquired by Adolph Sutro in 1879, shortly after his Comstock Lode stock was bought out by his partners, the "Silver Big 4." That enabled Sutro to invest in San Francisco real…
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