[Gardner Sanitarium pictorial lettersheet] [graphic]. [ca. 1910]

Gardner Sanitarium.

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Structure built in the 1870s by San Francisco banker William Chapman Ralston as a country residence. After Ralston's death, the estate passed to his former partner William Sharon, a U.S. Senator from Nevada. After Sharon's death, the mansion became Radcliffe Hall, a girls' finishing school. From 1900 to 1921 it was the Gardner Sanitarium. Since 1922, the building, now known as Ralston Hall Mansion, has been the home of Notre Dame de Namur University (cf. Ralston Hall Mansion web site http://www....

Ralston, William Chapman, 1826-1875

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William Chapman Ralston, San Francisco businessman and financier, was born in Plymouth, Ohio, in 1826. He arrived in San Francisco in 1854, and ten years later, when he organized the Bank of California, he became one of the most important and powerful men in California. He died in San Francisco in 1875. From the description of Letter of William Chapman Ralston, 1865, Sep. 9. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122383437 William ...

Ralston Hall Mansion

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