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Historic American Buildings Survey Courtesy of California Historical Society San Francisco, California Photo- ca. 1880 SOUTH ELEVATION - Ralston Hall, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, San Mateo County, CA
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Ralston, William Chapman
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
Title
Historic American Buildings Survey Courtesy of California Historical Society San Francisco, California Photo- ca. 1880 SOUTH ELEVATION - Ralston Hall, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, San Mateo County, CA
Depicted place California; San Mateo County; Belmont
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS CAL,41-BELM,1-2
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: One of the grandiose creations of a grandiose personality - William Chapman Ralston. Utilizing a modest villa, property of Count Cipriani in the 1850s and early 1860s, Ralston created a veritable Victorian palace here after buying the property in 1865. Largely built in the late 1860s, the house and grounds were constantly embellished until Ralston's mysterious death in 1875. Passing to his former partner, Senator William Sharon, the house was later sold to a Mrs. Bull who made it into a girls' school. Then, it became a private sanitarium run by Dr. Gardner. In 1922, the Sisters of Notre Dame purchased the property for the College of Notre Dame and begun conversion of the house to their uses. Carefully, they have gradually rehabilitated the mansion. Ralston Hall was stylistically a modified Italian Villa; but its rambling growth and present stripped exterior make exact categorization difficult. Like its creator, Ralston, the house reflected a mercurial variety and additive opulence. Its interiors are remarkable on a national scale of values, and incorporate many unusual features of both construction and decoration.
  • Survey number: HABS CA-1674
  • Building/structure dates: after 1860 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000234.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0807.photos.017337p
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Object location37° 31′ 13.01″ N, 122° 16′ 28.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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