| Whittier Mansion | |||||||||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | United States San Francisco Central#California#USA | ||||||||||||||||
| Pushpin Label: | Whittier Mansion | ||||||||||||||||
| Location: | 2090 Jackson Street | ||||||||||||||||
| Location City: | San Francisco, California | ||||||||||||||||
| Location Country: | United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 37.7934°N -122.4294°W | ||||||||||||||||
| Completion Date: | 1896 | ||||||||||||||||
| Destruction Date: | --> | ||||||||||||||||
| Architect: | Edward Robinson Swain | ||||||||||||||||
| Rooms: | 30 | ||||||||||||||||
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Whittier Mansion is a historic building at 2090 Jackson Street in San Francisco, California, US. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also a San Francisco Designated Landmark.
Designed by architect Edward Robinson Swain and built in 1896 by the family of financier William Franklin Whittier, it contains 30 rooms.[1] [2] Construction included steel-reinforced brick walls and a facing of Arizona red sandstone.
The building was a private residency, and it later served as the German Consulate for the German Reich in 1941, during the rise of Nazi Germany,[3] after World War II in 1950 the house was seized and sold at auction and returned to a private residency for many years, followed by the house being occupied by the California Historical Society (1956–1991).[4] [5] It is purported to be haunted.[6]