Nobby Clarke's Folly
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.
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