Spreckels Mansion
- Architect
- George Adrian Applegarth
- City
- San Francisco, CA
Spreckels Mansion is a French Baroque Chateau-style mansion at 2080 Washington Street in Pacific Heights, built 1912–1913 by architects George Adrian Applegarth and Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. for sugar heir Adolph B. Spreckels as a gift to his young wife, Alma de Bretteville. Assembling the estate meant combining several prime lots and moving eight existing Victorian homes to Jackson and Washington Streets, at a cost of roughly $1,000,000. It is San Francisco Designated Landmark No. 197.
the building
The observatory. The mansion was built with a circular observatory from which six Bay Area counties, including San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Alameda, were visible at the time of construction.
Clearing the site. To assemble enough land for the mansion, the Spreckels family combined several prime Pacific Heights lots and had eight existing Victorian houses physically moved to Jackson and Washington Streets.
the style
The house is designed in the French Baroque Chateau style, importing the vocabulary of a European country estate onto a Pacific Heights corner lot for one of the city's wealthiest families.
the architect
George Adrian Applegarth (1876–1972) designed the mansion in partnership with Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. under the firm MacDonald & Applegarth.
significance
Spreckels Mansion is San Francisco Designated Landmark No. 197.
nearby
- C. A. Belden House
- Haas–Lilienthal House
- Atherton House
- Tobin House
- Congregation Sherith Israel
- Bourn Mansion