Mortimer Fleishhacker House
| Mortimer Fleishhacker House | |
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| File:Mortimer Fleishhacker House (rear view).jpg Mortimer Fleishhacker House (1933) | |
| Location | 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, California |
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| Built for | Mortimer Fleishhacker Sr. Bella Gerstle Fleishhacker |
| Architect | Greene and Greene |
| Governing body | National Trust for Historic Preservation |
| Official name | Green Gables – Fleischhacker |
| Designated | September 26, 1986 |
| Reference no. | 86002396[1] |
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The Mortimer Fleishhacker House, also known as the Green Gables Estate, is a historic estate with an English manor house, built between 1911 and 1935, and located at 329 Albion Avenue in Woodside, California.[2] The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 26, 1986.[3][4]
The main house is two stories tall, and was created in an English manor-style with an imitation thatch roof, a gunite exterior, and consisting of ten bedrooms.[5][6] The garden is Italian style and features four levels of terracing and a lily pond, a Roman reflecting pool, and a piano-shaped swimming pool.[5][7]
History
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The Fleishhacker family
[edit | edit source]Mortimer Fleishhacker Sr. (1866–1953) was an entrepreneur who co-founded (with his brother Herbert Fleishhacker) the Great Western Power utility company, which later became part of Pacific Gas and Electric and the City Electric Company.[8][9][5] He served as a director of the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Temple Emanu-El.[10] Fleishhacker had a second home at 2418 Pacific Avenue in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California.[10]
The Green Gables Estate was used and remained in the Fleishhacker family for five generations.[11][12]
Property and landscaping
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In 1911, Fleishhacker Sr. and his wife Bella Gerstle Fleishhacker (1875–1963), commissioned Charles Sumner Greene of the architectural firm Greene and Greene to design a country home for them on a 45-acre property.[2][11] This was the largest of all Greene and Greene designs.[5] The interior of the house was designed by Elsie de Wolfe and the San Francisco design house of Vickery, Atkins and Torrey.[13] When designing the home, Greene also took into account the design of the landscaping and the driveway.[7][14]
The property's rolling green lawns were inspired by the Fountains Abbey of Studley Royal Park in 18th-century England, which Greene had visited in 1909.[14] The garden has natural materials used and design elements that complement the landscape such as terraces, walls, arcades, balustrades, and planting urns.[15] Over the years, the Fleishhacker family built out the estate, adding new structures and land.[16][17]
Modern history
[edit | edit source]The property was used to host family weddings, corporate retreats, and historic summits; including a United Nations 20th-anniversary gala in 1965.[12] The estate was filmed as the Martin family home in the 1999 film Bicentennial Man.[18] As of 2019, the estate is 74-acres in size.[16][19][20]
As of 2025, the house was sold in September for 85 million and remains a private residence.[21][22]
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes rented a house on the property with her partner from March 2021 until November 2022.[23][24]
See also
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- ^ Forever Green: A conservation easement ensures one of Woodside's grandest estates, Green Gables, will be preserved
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- ^ https://www.redfin.com/CA/Woodside/329-Albion-Ave-94062/home/889904?msockid=2718a1415ee06c1f027fb5065fe26dca
- ^ https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/329-Albion-Ave-Woodside-CA-94062/15596953_zpid/?msockid=2718a1415ee06c1f027fb5065fe26dca
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External links
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- Mortimer Fleishhacker House photographs from Columbia University Libraries
- An Interview with Delia Ehrlich (granddaughter of Mortimer) from 640 Heritage Preservation Foundation
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