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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''
'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''


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'''Nobby Clarke's Folly in the 1990s'''
'''Nobby Clarke's Folly in 2020.'''


''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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'''Still under construction in 1892.'''
''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp33.00962''


Nobby Clarke's Folly, at the corner of Douglass and Caselli in [[Living on the Slopes| upper Eureka Valley]], built on a 30-acre spread in 1892. [[Alfred "Nobby" Clarke: The Police Department's 'Emperor Norton'|Nobby Clarke]] got his money as clerk to the Police Chief during the first decades of San Francisco's urban existence.
Nobby Clarke's Folly, at the corner of Douglass and Caselli in [[Living on the Slopes| upper Eureka Valley]], built on a 30-acre spread in 1892. [[Alfred "Nobby" Clarke: The Police Department's 'Emperor Norton'|Nobby Clarke]] got his money as clerk to the Police Chief during the first decades of San Francisco's urban existence.


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'''Nobby Clarke's Folly looking northward while under construction in 1891. [[Corona Heights|Corona Heights]] in background.'''


'''Nobby Clarke's Folly early view'''
''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6973''


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''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''
''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''
[[Image:castro1$nobby-clarke_s-folly-present.jpg]]
'''Nobby Clarke's Folly in the 1990s'''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''


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Revision as of 17:41, 15 July 2020

Unfinished History

Nobby-clarkes-folly 20200627 170406.jpg

Nobby Clarke's Folly in 2020.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Nobby clarkes folly 1892 wnp33.00962.jpg

Still under construction in 1892.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp33.00962

Nobby Clarke's Folly, at the corner of Douglass and Caselli in upper Eureka Valley, built on a 30-acre spread in 1892. Nobby Clarke got his money as clerk to the Police Chief during the first decades of San Francisco's urban existence.

250 Douglass 1891 wnp27.6973.jpg

Nobby Clarke's Folly looking northward while under construction in 1891. Corona Heights in background.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6973

Castro1$nobby-clarke s-folly--2.jpg

Nobby Clarke's Folly #2

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

Castro1$nobby-clarke s-folly-present.jpg

Nobby Clarke's Folly in the 1990s

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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