Green Gables was built for San Franciscans Mortimer and Bella Fleishhacker as a summer place. The name, Green Gables, was a play on words, alluding to architect Charles Sumner Greene who started the ...

The 74-acre estate sits on a hill overlooking terraced gardens and a lily pond. Down a flagstone staircase stands a 300-foot Roman pool, bordered at the end with open stone arches. Photo courtesy ...

Q. ”Did you ever find out whether Fleishhacker murdered all that boatload of Chinamen?” A. “I was told he was interested in the business of bringing in Chinese which I was told was very profitable and ...

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Russ (RCJL), passed away at home with his wife and son at his bedside. Russell Charles Lease grew up on 8th Avenue in the Richmond District of San Francisco and attended George Washington High School ...

Cleaning your pool is a necessary and frequent chore, but it doesn’t have to cut down on your swimming time. A good robotic pool cleaner can make it easy to maintain your backyard swimming hole by ...

One of Silicon Valley’s oldest legacy mansions, the Green Gables Estate in Woodside, has been listed for $125 million. But if the 74-acre property is more than you want, the owners are offering one or ...

These are the first lines of a rhyming riddle, posted two days ago on r/sanfrancisco, that kicked off a city-wide treasure hunt. "We always figured treasure hunting would feature more heavily in life, ...