Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "Inside San Francisco’s Lost Leland Stanford Mansion on Nob Hill" video.

Your comment reminded me of what was said about the Stewart mansion in New York. Someone said the house would be good as a gentlemen's club -- and it later was used for that purpose. I can see that happening to the Stanford house had it lasted longer. I was reading the book "The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned" about the '06 earthquake and it was mentioned that the houses on Nob Hill though intended to be family homes for many years were already in "semi-public use" by the time of the earthquake. The Hopkins mansion next door was already being used as an art school.
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It's the Hopkins mansion that was also lost in the fire. There's at least one video about it that I can think of here on You Tube. It had quite a history though didn't stand for all that many years.
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Gorgeous place. And so many outstanding photographs. I wonder that the story is just behind the photographs; who made the decision to document the house so thoroughly and so well. I noticed that circular opening in the floor in the rotunda area and that a higher metal railing had been placed around the original railing. Good idea; that first railing looked nice, but someone leaning over to admire the rotunda could have taken a terrible fall.
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