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17 de nov. de 2016 · The original house belonging to Adolph Sutro was demolished after Merritt's death in 1938. The parapet, a gazebo, and vestiges of statuary are about all that is left structure-wise. The gardens ...
Adolph Sutro. Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro was born at Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia on April 29, 1830. The second eldest of 13 children, he and most of his siblings emigrated to Maryland from Germany with their widowed mother in 1850. California’s Gold Rush brought him west to San Francisco a year later, where he became a ...
Adolph Sutro was a German Jewish immigrant who came to San Francisco from Prussia in 1850 at a time of tumult and revolution in Western Europe. He left both to avoid conscription in the military, and to seek opportunity in the United States. Along with his family, he boarded a steamship and headed to New York, and from here, like many young men ...
22 de nov. de 2020 · Triumph of Light statue on Mount Olympus, circa 1888. (wnp27.6960; Isiah West Taber, photographer – Marilyn Blaisdell Collection / Courtesy of a Private Collector) On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1887, a ceremony took place atop Mount Olympus. The land belonged to Adolph Sutro and he believed it was the perfect place for a monument.
18 de may. de 2023 · Perched on the shores of San Francisco, the Sutro Baths represented the vision of Adolph Sutro, a self-made millionaire with a passion for natural history and marine studies.Constructed in 1894, the Baths were part of a grand oceanfront complex that aimed to provide an affordable and recreational swimming facility for the people of San Francisco.
11 de abr. de 2024 · The Sutro Baths, a historical jewel of San Francisco, embody a rich narrative that is intertwined with the city’s development. Originally built in the late 19th century by Adolph Sutro, a visionary entrepreneur and the then mayor of San Francisco, the Baths were more than a mere public swimming facility. They represented an era of grandeur ...
Adolph Sutro in his library. Photo: Bancroft Library. Fittingly, Adolph Sutro's memory was demolished in the same way that it was made: on the free market. His life story is in fact a kind of individual blueprint for the fortunes of an entire generation coming of age during the post-Gold Rush years of Big Mining and Big Industry.
