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2 de sept. de 2015 · Der 1830 in Aachen geborene Adolph Sutro war eines von 13 Kindern der Eheleute Emanuel Sutro (1791–1847) und Rosa Warendorff (1803–1883). Sein Vater, in Bruck (Erlangen) geboren, betrieb nach der Heirat mit der gebürtigen Dürenerin in Aachen ein Textilgeschäft.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ene. de 2002 · To say that Adolph Sutro at one time owned the western neighborhoods would not be far from the truth. In the 1880s, Sutro had title to something like a tenth of the city of San Francisco and the vast majority of his holdings consisted of undeveloped sandy lands West of Twin Peaks. Today the left side of town is littered with monuments to his ...
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.
