The Mark Hopkins mansion burned to the ground in the Great Fire of 1906.
The Mark Hopkins Hotel now stands on the site at California and Mason Streets.

Click here: http://www.ronhenggeler.com/San%20Francisco/Nob%20Hill/3-93.htm
to see the bronze plaque that is displayed on the California Street side of the granite retaining wall in front of today’s Mark Hopkins Hotel. It appears on the wall in the area near the mansion’s front door in the above 19th century photo.

A young woman's snapshot of the burned-out Hopkins mansion.
http://www.ronhenggeler.com/Young%20Woman/hopkins_mansion.html

Another similar view from the pages of Glimpses of Disaster
http://www.ronhenggeler.com/Glimpses_of_Disaster/hopkins.html

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