Why was California's Largest Mansion Buried in San Francisco? 

I enjoyed the clip and appreciate your new clarification. But the post said that the mansion was buried in San Francisco and that Menlo Park was part of “ modern day San Francisco” and you made no mention of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is a large area of 9 counties with 8 million people. There is a big difference between the city of San Francisco and the the “San Francisco Bay Area”.

SF Bay Area, okay.

​@@nevada531_Nine_ counties, even

@@nevada531 Absolutely agree with that!

Quibble, that's what I wrote under my previous comment that brought on this pinned comment.

If there was no money for long-term upkeep...

@@kristineanderson4983 Paid entry into this majestic stately home would have been more than enough to cover the costs I am sure. As people would be queuing at the door to see inside this incredible building.

That's the other problem, the glutonous excess that created a house with that many rooms, bedrooms etc and huge gardens and land space that all cost money to maintain, or building a massive church with huge stone spires that start crumbling and become unstable, and cost millions to repair... basically dooms these buildings because they are difficult to convert to a modern use like apartments, or cost a fortune to repair. Seen a number of massive churches that have like 10 story high spires on them get damaged from weather and time,and the congregation dwindles down to an unsustainable numebr who cant even afford to heat the building let alone come up with $30 million to repair the two collapsing spires, and the building is closed, vandalised and stripped and the city winds up footing the costs for demolition- after which the congregation decides to cash in on the LAND by selling the land for tax free profit after the city spent millions clearing the building of it! @@kristineanderson4983

Conserving things is a new idea, of the past decades. No one cared much, back in the day. Also: it's the economy, stupid. There are also people who question these quite decadent and wasteful expressions. It's disharmonious bad taste of the filthy rich. It doesn't add much but a huge volume of cliches. Not functional.

@@HobbyOrganistchurches and private mansions are not comparable. In general, churches and cathedrals were paid for by the congregations of the time, who donated. And the spires were never about gluttony.

Not to mention all the precious materials and work that go into making them.

I think they built the house that was on full house above it. Really sickens me to think of those three weird men trotting around on top of literally history.

Have you guys heard of lake Lanier?

If you have enough money to buy his dream house, then you have enough money to build your dream house. It's sad to see them gone and even sadder that they bulldozed salvage that could have been reused.

Please see the pinned comment. Menlo Park is in the San Francisco Bay Area.

@ThisHouse Yes of course it’s in the San Francisco Bay Area but the narration said it was in “modern day San Francisco” not the San Francisco Bay Area. The geographical difference is important to understand for viewers.

The same Market Street that has businesses closing all down the road? Sad to take in the rise in homelessness, glad I escaped California's soul trap. Bunch of liars and child pervs all over the place around there. Not safe for families to raise children anymore. This youtube video is promoting a narrative totally based in lies.

The one word that seems to have been the demise of many amazing houses..."Developers" Money wins over everything it seems!

You'd be appalled at all the beautiful old buildings that have been demolished in the US. All for the almighty dollar.

@@SpiritGirlSF Some call it progress. Even sticking it to the rich. I call it destruction of fine art any bit as good as the Mona Lisa or Blue Boy. Or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The people who destroyed it couldn’t have made something that grand and hardly ANYONE today could come close.

@@mileshigh1321 And this was destroyed in 36 art deco and modernism were the big trend in architecture then. So the houses the built on top of the rubble of the beautiful mansion were ugly as h€££!!!

Jealous

Hi Robert - I"d love to know more. Would you be available? Thanks!

These and many other houses are old world buildings, including the Palace of fine arts... They inherited these buildings and it is a known fact that these buildings have been here for a couple of hundred years.. this is the reason why they felt no connection to the house and didn't mind the contents being auctioned off ..did you hear him say that the furniture was several hundred years old.. who is an avid collector of fine arts and then walks away from it.. there was a certain energy and spirit in that house that did not sit well with the inheritors ..and that's why they only used it for parties and rarely live in it ,yet they built their own house in knob hill and lived there.! If they told you the truth about these palaces it would be more questions than answers and they will have to rewrite history.. we had no Craftsman here that can do that type of building and work..no sir, that's why they rarely tell you who was the building company that built these old world houses!😊

​@@kevinshephard8279 Tartarian empire ?

@@manuelaguirre1062 I wouldn't necessarily say that we don't know what type of political structure was here ., But it was some type of political order.. and definitely buildings and cities were here.. and the timeline was was definitely changed and our industrial revolution was ushered in by inventions that were reverse engineered!! Come on, the Parthenon and Greek and Roman buildings in America. Castles and Palaces everywhere..! They don't teach that in our history!

@@kevinshephard8279 I agree. Lots of history they teach us is wrong.

Also, imagine how little immigrant wages were just as today. Treated just as lowly until this very day. Pitiful.

"Progress."🤔

@@JayYoung-ro3vu There's never been real "progress". In thousands of years we haven't learned to be nice to each other, and we still have to wipe our @$$ after we $#!t.

Love the FJB ending 😂

Tartaria

@@unknownsender6852 That was my first thought. The story we are told about an extraordinary house like this makes zero sense.

@@thelogicaldanger If you knew ANYTHING about craftsmanship you'd understand how ordinary but very talented humans could create those buildings. People took their time and were proud of their creations, instead of having some suit in a corner office telling them to get it done yesterday ... oh and come in 10% under budget. The TartarSauce conspiracy's been debunked as a 19th century Russian fable. Full stop.

Gotta wipe out the previous civilization, to prevent people from asking the right questions. Where is the construction photos or blueprints for ANY of these grand structures from this previous civilization? Melted brick phenomenon as well, especially all around Napa Valley. We're lied to about our history, especially California's history. LOL. They fail to mention the mosquito people blessing tribes with long life outside of San Francisco, life sapping shaman's kidnapping young women, teaching them how to eat souls. Queen Calif and her griffins, so much ancient history out of California alone, just completely ignored. The first shaman is said to be responsible for the creation of grand structures and buildings throughout this continent. Maybe if we cared enough to piece together the facts as our ancestors share them, then we'd not feel the need to continue to write narratives about history according to what we believe today. No one knows how to speak with the ancestors here. Shame. Narrow view without them.

Hi there, as a San Franciscan, you did not know if this particular mansion because this mansion was in Menlo park about 30 miles south from San Francisco,where I grew up. It would be interesting to see if any of the construction companies that build those beautiful houses in Lindenwood came across any archaeological evidence of the mansion.

If you look it up on maps, it's just a large neighborhood. The original entrance to the estate was at Middlefield Rd and Linden Ave in Menlo Park, CA. Though, the gate is not the original, it is in the same spot. Flood Circle is roughly where the mansion sat.

That was another house. I went to high school in atherton , and Lindenwood, the sight of the Flood mansion, was on one side of the high school, and the priory was in another mansion on the other side of Menlo-Atherton High School. M-A for those of us who graduated from there

Most likely you are mentioning one of the buildings in the Vallombrosa Center off Oak Grove, originally built by one of the heirs of Mark Hopkins, not Flood.

Wow, thank you!

I've heard the same about the Hollywood studios.

Unfortunately it was very common in this period, the Gilded Age. There was massive resource/wealth extraction and no income tax in the US

Most of these men started as people who had so little. They were willing to put the hard work, effort and sweat to prosper. Nobody handed anything to them. How wonderful that they created something so beautiful, giving employment to hundreds of people.

@@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 Nobody handed them anything? The US government _literally_ gave western land that once belonged to indigenous people to any US citizen who could afford the filing fee. 270 million acres were distributed (in 160 acre parcels) to Americans between 1862 and 1988 under the Homestead Act.

@@bonniea8189 And they had to venture out in wagons, with little food, little water in all kinds of weather and storm and build a life out of nothing. No police. No firemen. No blacksmiths, no veterinarians, no stores, no hospitals. Nothing to protect themselves except a rifle. No schools or teachers. No place to worship. No GPS and no roads to travel on. Yet they persevered and endured and built up the country that YOU benefit off of. Many didn't have have the tenacity and the grit it took. Many just didn't survive. And you think that's not a big deal, huh? You think that's not worthy of admiration? Good grief. Where were you when they were handing out the critical thinking skills?

They say the first generation makes the money, the second generation spends the money and the third generation destroys it.

The interior of the Nob Hill house was gutted by the earthquake and fire of 1906. The house was sold to a wealthy private men's club, the Pacific Union Club, and they rebuilt the interior. It is a private club and the public isn't allowed to enter the building.

That's really decent that you're a docent.

@@joywebster2678 🤣 Inconthievable!

No ancient civilization built these structures. You are believing lies told by greedy writers.

Yeah, I was thinking of the same thing... WYKYK... 😎

Finally someone who understands what this building was. All the buildings in the SF World's Fair were the same and they tore all those magnificent structures down too.

@@yaimavol There has been a systematic destruction of 'old world' Tartarian buildings and infrastructure. All those world's fair events were planned to destroy large swaths of old buildings and old, or not so old, history.

@@1charlastar886 In every case they left just one building behind. It's hard to figure out what really happened. Where did that civilization go? It's like they just vanished and left entire cities empty behind them.

@@yaimavol Mental institutions popped up big in the late 1800s. One Tartarian content creator talked about his great granddad who was apparently an upstanding but curious citizen who attended several worlds fairs with his wife. When she died, all 5 of their children were taken away and he was institutionalized. Later, adult children, the poster's great aunt, said she had no idea why. Look for the videos about the orphan trains. Masses of children and no parents. What happened?

Made from stone it was the only Mansion to survive the fire up there on Knob hill in 1906 … but the interior was completely gutted . Was renovated and became an exclusive private club . There is another fabulous Flood Building at Market and Powell ( where the cable cars turn ) built by Flood’s son only two years before the Great Quake it also did not burn and miraculously did not fall down either as many brick and stone buildings did . Most of the structures lost after the earthquake were burned ( many intentionally ) or dynamited in an attempt to stop the firestorm when they were unable to put out the many fires .

That's a a false theory that was invented by a two bit author.

Please see the pinned comment. Menlo Park is in the San Francisco Bay Area.

That's all good. A lot of folks aren't aware that the SF Bay Area isn't just one city, it's many smaller cities that a each governed separately. No need to quibble about it, it is what it is and the former mansion is not in the city proper so is not beneath my feet. I see someone else appreciated your additional pinned comment, where I see someone else has corrected you even more than myself. Thank you for understanding that some of us are real stickers for the truth. Can the titles of videos not be altered without having to reupload?

Tartaria

@@unknownsender6852 Tartaria is crap. No such place ever existed.

Please see the pinned comment. Menlo Park is in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The video says “modern San Francisco” not Bay Area.