Historical landmark
The Cliff House
1090 Point Lobos Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
Clifftop landmark rebuilt three times after a dynamite-ship explosion and two fires, overlooking the Pacific.
This guide to The Cliff House in San Francisco starts at half past midnight on January 16, 1887, when a crew rowed away from a schooner wedged into the rocks at Lands End, its lamps left burning over tons of smuggled dynamite. The blast tore the north wing off the Cliff House, then owned by silver millionaire Adolph Sutro, who patched it back together - only for a faulty chimney flue to burn it to nothing on Christmas night, 1894. It follows the turreted 'Gingerbread Palace' Sutro raised next, and the earthquake and fire that came for that one too.
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