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'''Nobby Clarke's Folly in | '''Nobby Clarke's Folly in 2020.''' | ||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ||
Nobby Clarke's Folly, at the corner of Douglass and Caselli in [[Living on the Slopes| upper Eureka Valley]], built on a 30-acre spread in 1892. Nobby Clarke got his money as clerk to the Police Chief during the first decades of San Francisco's urban existence. | [[Image:Alfred Clarke house as Victor Apartments building. 1910 wnp4.1276.jpg|800px]] | ||
'''The building when it was the Victor Apartments in 1910.''' | |||
''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp4.1276'' | |||
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'''Still under construction in 1892.''' | |||
''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp33.00962'' | |||
Nobby Clarke's Folly, at the corner of Douglass and Caselli in [[Living on the Slopes| upper Eureka Valley]], built on a 30-acre spread in 1892. [[Alfred "Nobby" Clarke: The Police Department's 'Emperor Norton'|Nobby Clarke]] got his money as clerk to the Police Chief during the first decades of San Francisco's urban existence. | |||
[[Image:250 Douglass 1891 wnp27.6973.jpg|800px]] | |||
[[ | '''Nobby Clarke's Folly looking northward while under construction in 1891. [[Corona Heights|Corona Heights]] in background.''' | ||
'' | ''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6973'' | ||
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''Photo: | ''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA'' | ||
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'''Nobby Clarke's Folly in the 1990s''' | |||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
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Latest revision as of 22:09, 20 June 2022
Unfinished History
Nobby Clarke's Folly in 2020.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The building when it was the Victor Apartments in 1910.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp4.1276
Still under construction in 1892.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp33.00962
Nobby Clarke's Folly, at the corner of Douglass and Caselli in upper Eureka Valley, built on a 30-acre spread in 1892. Nobby Clarke got his money as clerk to the Police Chief during the first decades of San Francisco's urban existence.
Nobby Clarke's Folly looking northward while under construction in 1891. Corona Heights in background.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6973
Nobby Clarke's Folly #2
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
Nobby Clarke's Folly in the 1990s
Photo: Chris Carlsson