The historic estate in California stands at 74 acres with seven individual homes
The iconic Mortimer Fleishhacker House, more famously known as Green Gables, is back on the real estate market at a revised price tag of US$110 million. It will be the first time the Fleishhacker family’s summer residence will trade hands since the main English manor house was built 110 years ago.
In an attempt to escape the commonly occurring San Francisco fog and also in search of an ideal place to build a generational family compound, Mortimer Fleishhacker, Sr–an entrepreneur in hydroelectric power, lumber, paper and banking–had his driver take him to look at properties out of the city where the fog could not reach.
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Fleishhacker stumbled upon Woodside, a 40-minute drive from San Francisco and just north of Silicon Valley, where “in the summer, the [Santa Cruz] mountains keep the San Francisco fog at bay, allowing daytime highs to hit right around 80 degrees,” Marc Fleishhacker, great-grandson of Mortimer, told Forbes.
The elder Fleishhacker commissioned architect/landscape architect Charles Sumner Greene of the famous architectural firm of Greene and Greene to build a house in Woodside between 1911 and 1935, one with a design that appeared natural to its landscape.
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