A SAN FRANCISCO CATHEDRAL; Crocker Mansion Site to be Given for the Edifice. Share full article. July 15, 1906. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

The Charles Crocker mansion was built in 1878. ... After his wife died, it was donated to the San Francisco Art Association to be used as a school and museum, until it burned in 1906.

It's the most famous fence in San Francisco history: a three-story-tall board wall that one of the city's richest men built around the home of a neighbor who wouldn't sell his property. The rich man ...