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The Brief Glory Days of San Francisco’s Robber Baron Palaces

Lost Masterpieces

Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker built some of the fanciest houses on Nob Hill—only to see them wrecked in San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake.

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