Circa 1886 Mark Hopkins Residence Photograph Print, San Francisco. California.

Design Plus Gallery presents a Vintage Print of a Mrs Mark Hopkins Residence, San Francisco. California. Custom frame, in good condition, minimal wear.

“Mark Hopkins was known as one of the “Big Four” in San Francisco in the late 19th century. He was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad. Hopkins choose to build his mansion on the fashionable Nob Hill where his fellow multimillionaires of the Gilded Age also resided. Sadly Hopkins would not see his mansion since it was completed in 1878 after his death. The mansion was a show piece which anyone can tell from the photographs. It survived the devastating 1906 earthquake but sadly was destroyed in the fire that followed in the days after. Today, the Mark Hopkins Hotel stands on the site. Since the tower of the mansion was at the time the highest point in San Francisco, Eadweard Muybridge chose to shoot his 1877 panoramic photograph of the city from this location.