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View from Lafayette Park

January 1, 1875

View northeast from near Lafayette Park. Four story building at left is the Parisian Hotel c.1871 (became Abbotsford House 1876, Broadway between Larkin & Polk). To right, Spring Valley Grammar School (S.C. Bugbee & Son Architect 1865-1866), Larkin St. Presbyterian Church (at Pacific, 1864). On Russian Hill, large house with dark roof is Rudolph Lawler house, SW corner Green & Leavenworth built 1861. In front of it is J. Shade Duncan house c.1857, to its right with Mansard roof and cupola (NW corner Vallejo & Leavenworth), Jabez Clay house. At lower left with Mansard roof, W.C. Talbot house (S.C. Bugbee & Son 1872 NE Corner Jackson & Franklin). [San Francisco and Environs from Holliday (Sic) Heights 2170] Similar to wnp37.00819. ("Holladay Heights" 1866 mansion of Samuel W. Holladay).[WK]

front, "Taber, Pacific Coast Views, No. 8 Montgomery Street, opposite Palace and Grand Hotels, San Francisco and Environs from Holliday Heights, 2170."