The story
The only Nob Hill mansion to survive the 1906 earthquake was built by a silver baron who made his fortune in a San Francisco saloon, and it still excludes visitors today.
Everything that was here
- 1886–present · still open
James C. Flood Mansion (Pacific-Union Club)Private Club
The only Nob Hill mansion to survive the 1906 earthquake was built by a silver baron who made his fortune in a San Francisco saloon, and it still excludes visitors today.
See the map in 1887 → - 1854–present · still open
Old Saint Mary's CathedralChurch
California's first cathedral was built by Chinese laborers with granite cut in China, featured a clock message scolding brothel visitors, and stood gutted but defiant after 1906.
See the map in 1855 → - 1849–present · still open
Tadich GrillRestaurant
Tadich Grill started in 1849 as a coffee stand on Clay Street run by three Croatian immigrants, and is called the oldest running restaurant in California.
See the map in 1850 → - 1878–1906
Mark Hopkins MansionMansion
A railroad tycoon's $3 million Gothic castle of redwood became an art school before burning in the 1906 fires.
See the map in 1879 →
Nearby history
Coppa's Restaurant
Grand Opera House
Hotaling Building
The Old Ship Saloon
Transamerica Pyramid (site of Montgomery Block)
International Hotel (I-Hotel)
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