Poster Celebrating the Importance of the Big Four Railroad Enterprise
The Mark Hopkins Mansion
One rumor had it that Mrs. Hopkins built their mansion on such a grand scale “to put Jane Stanford in her place.”
The Stanford Mansion
The Crocker Mansion
The Crocker Spite Fence
(Detail of an Eadweard Muybridge photo taken in 1877, photoshopped to highlight the Crocker mansion and spite fence)