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Parapet and Southern View, Sutro Heights
Adolph Sutro made a fortune as an engineer on the Comstock mines. Returning to San Francisco in 1881, he purchased 1,000 acres of land on the northwest corner of the city. Sutro then turned acres of the rocks and dunes into a formal garden with Victorian statues and topped his property with a mansion surrounded by a parapet, shown here along with its view. In 1894 Sutro was elected mayor of San Francisco and then died in 1898. The property that was his house and garden was donated to the city in 1930 and remains a park today.
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