Great estates (and some pretty nice houses) of Claremont and Rockridge
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Zoomable map of northern Alameda County, circa 1878
Taggart/Hotchkiss house, Hazel Road, 1877-1940
Maxwell Hardware hitching post, Plaza Drive
Diana Paxson's Greyhaven on El Camino
Yelland house at end of Hillcrest
The Uplands in 1909; from left to right are 195 The Uplands;
Ghirardelli estate in background; Hind house at 208 The Uplands
The Taylor Mansion "La Dulzura", top of The Uplands at Tunnel Road
Taylor Estate steps
La Dulzura in an early postcard
The Ghirardelli house in an early postcard
Original 1910 plan for McDuffie estate
(Tunnel Road at bottom, Roble Road to left)
1909 sketch of planned McDuffie house
McDuffie carriage house, 156 Tunnel Road
Garden below McDuffie house, 22 Roble Road
Walter Ratcliff's home on Roble Road
East end of Chabot Road, 1931; covered well in lower left
Chick House on Chabot Road by Maybeck, at edge of 1991 firestorm
Claremont's "model home": the Douglas house on Parkside
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