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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | '''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | ||
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'''Nobby Clarke's Folly in | '''Nobby Clarke's Folly in 2020.''' | ||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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'''Nobby Clarke's Folly | '''Nobby Clarke's Folly looking northward while under construction in 1891. [[Corona Heights|Corona Heights]] in background.''' | ||
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''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA'' | ''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA'' | ||
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'''Nobby Clarke's Folly in the 1990s''' | |||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
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Unfinished History
Nobby Clarke's Folly in 2020.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
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.
Nobby Clarke's Folly #2
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
Nobby Clarke's Folly in the 1990s
Photo: Chris Carlsson