Claremont-Rockridge Estates Walk Itinerary
     
Entrance to Claremont residential area - plaque summarizes history

East side of Claremont Ave. down to Hillcrest was Joseph Park estate,
 Park Place; 1914 house is at 3115 Claremont

North of Russ estate was Taggart/Hotchkiss estate (1877-1941)
 - old wall by sidewalk still visible in places
 - designed by A W Pattiani for G Taggart, bought 1900 by W J Hotchkiss
 - Hazel Road named for Hotchkiss daughter, a tennis star, in 1940's
 
North of Hotchkiss estate was George Cox's "Laurelwood" (1881-1914)
 and Miss Graham's Riding Academy (1905);
 now the grounds of the John Muir School (James Plachek, 1915)
 
North of Ashby (no road between Claremont & Domingo before 1930):
Palaches' Fairview, Judge Garber's Bellerose; Kelsey farm to west

Oakvale Avenue was driveway to "Oakvale", Frederick Russ estate
 (built in 1870's, sold 1907, razed 1925); palms to west mark entrance
 Grotto was well of estate; Claremont Ave. omnibus horses drank from it
 - Russ Building at 235 Montgomery was once tallest building in SF

Spohn house (10 Oakvale; 1911) was garage for planned "manor house"

Walter Wood estate (1 Plaza Drive; 1909); WW a lumberman, appropriately

Napoleon Douglas house (35 Parkside; 1910) was "model home" in photos

Architect Charles Sumner Kaiser's house (60 The Uplands; 1907); also
  designed Claremont Club (214 Hillcrest) and Ghirardelli house

Greyhaven, 90 El Camino; was home of writer Marion Zimmer Bradley

Kellogg house, 98 EC; first St. Clement's Church service, 10/25/1908

Charles Keeler studio, 155 El Camino (around 1917)

Yelland-designed house (1925) end of Hillcrest, built for Capt. & Mrs.
  Edwards (nee Hinde) - half burned in 1991 firestorm
 
Hinde estate (1908) on Uplands; replaced with newer houses

Henry W. Taylor mansion "La Dulzura", top of The Uplands (1908-1935)
 - owner replaced John Galen Howard with L C Mullgardt as architect
 - 40 rooms, $150K, Mission/Tibetan style, terra cotta cobblestone roof

Duncan McDuffie carriage house (156 Tunnel Road; 1910)

Yelland-designed "country French estate" (166 Tunnel Road; 1927)
 - where McDuffie's mansion was intended to go

Ghirardelli family house (169 Tunnel Road; 1908)

William McDuffie (Duncan's younger brother) house (6 Roble Road; 1920)

Duncan McDuffie house (22 Roble Road; 1924) and garden below

Architect Walter Ratcliff home (55 Roble Road; 1914)

Roble Road ended at pillars (Oakland border) till between 1947 & 1959.
On left, site of Heimbold dairy farm, 18xx-1960; edge of 1991 firestorm

Note straw-bale house north of railroad track bed

Chick house by Maybeck (7133 Chabot Road; 1914)
 - was at edge of 1991 fire, corner of roof burned

Artist Maurice Logan's house (7117 Chabot; 1918), on "Gold Rock"
 where bank robbers were hanged ~1900 but loot never found

Artist Selden Connor Gile's house 1915-1927 at 7027 Chabot Road

Pagoda Hill of Jackson Ross Browne (NE corner of Ross Street, 1870)
 - Harwood St. E of Ross used to be "Pagoda Place"

Grimmon house, Rockwell & Harwood, opposite H C Brougher's castle

Ainsworth/Butters 15-acre "Roselawn", SE of Ivanhoe/Chabot (1880-1928)
 - Butters a mining engineer, played with dynamite, annoyed neighbors
 
Sorenson house (1929) at 5809 Ivanhoe; built when Roselawn sold off;
 owned by tennis pro Frank Kovacs (Ernie's cousin) and wife Judy Davis,
 voice coach to Sinatra, Garland, Mary Martin, Grace Slick, Eddie Money

Bivins house and grounds (6165 Chabot Road; 1873)

St. Albert's Dominican College
 - on grounds of Perry estate "Brookhurst" (1912-1934)