Sugar Palace

Unfinished History

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The Sugar Palace

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Entry way to 2080 Washington Street

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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Claus Spreckels

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

The Spreckels Mansion, 2080 Washington St. This outrageous circa-1912 chateau, famous for its ornate French Baroque limestone facade, is known as the Sugar Palace, since it was built with the Spreckels' sugar fortune. George and Alma Spreckels were perhaps San Francisco's best-known patrons of the arts; they gave the city the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the museum built above the bones of Gold Rush pioneers.

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Claus Spreckels in Chicago, 1910.

Photo: Chicago Daily News negatives DN-0008426, Chicago History Museum


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Spreckels' Sugar Factory beneath Potrero Hill, c. 1890s

Photo: Bancroft Library


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Western Sugar Refinery, n.d., near Union Iron Works, San Francisco.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library


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