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The Chateau Tivoli, Gilded Age Mansion, Bonnie Spindler, The Victorian Specialist

Alamo Square historically played a role in the opulent homes of the Gilded Age and unlike other areas of the city was not burned or destroyed by The 1906 earthquake. This segment discusses the last Gilded Age and the new one we are experiencing now. If you were standing on Alamo Hill in 1776, you were likely walking or riding a horse between the Mission San Francisco de Asis and the El Presidio Real de San Francisco on the Old Divisadero Trail. Alamo Hill was a landmark for those traveling between the two early outposts. Alamo Square was called Alamo Hill after a Poplar tree that grew there. It was heavily wooded and kids would play in the “forest”. Mayor James Van Ness made Alamo Hill a park named Alamo Square in 1857; its 12 acres were landscaped in 1892. The same year, Daniel and Maria Jackson, from Seattle Washington hired William Armitage to design a fanciful homage to wood, in the Victorian Chateauesque style. Armitage also designed the Seattle Block next door. Jackson, a lumber baron, who identified himself as a capitalist, clearly took advantage of his profession by embellishing his home with elaborate parquet flooring, wooden banisters and newel posts, fish scales, and massive oak built-in furniture. H. Williamson acted as the contractor. The Jacksons didn’t stay in San Francisco long and soon returned to Seattle only to build an even bigger home. They sold to Ernestine Kreling in 1902. She had been married first to Joseph Kreling, and then to William Kreing. The carriage step still bears their name. After both of the Kreling brothers’ deaths, she married William “Doc” Lehey with whom she started the Tivoli Opera House. It is after this connection, and the opera stars who may have visited the house, that it was named Chateau Tivoli. Each room is named after a famous opera star and in the evenings you can often hear opera and symphony orchestras playing on the phonograph. The Chateauesque style is relatively rare. The goal is to evoke the 16th-century French Chateaus an amalgamation of Gothic, Renaissance, and Victorian elements. They are almost always large and imposing. The roof lines are complicated and include finials, turrets, cresting, dormers, gables, and patterned or slate rooves. They have towers or turrets with conical roofs, (witches cap) and tall chimneys with stucco, brick, and fanciful decorations. Balconies and doorways are arches with fretwork, tracery, or relief stories embossed into the siding. Chateau Tivoli is being used as a Bed and Breakfast. The building has a spectacular front entry with marble stairs, a carved peacock relief plaster, stained glass, and heavy oak double doors. Most rooms are adorned by Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper and lavish woodwork. The grand foyer hall's sweeping oak multi-newel post staircase is a striking first impression. On each side of the entry are the living room and dining room. The kitchen is anchored with classic encaustic tiles and stained glass windows, There is a commercial Traulsen refrigerator, an antique CP gas stove, stainless steel DW, and an antique center island with a chopping block top. No Victorian kitchen would be complete without the butler's pantry. It has nine bedrooms and seven and a half bathrooms, a garage, laundry, a caretaker’s unit, a hidden 5th-floor secret attic room with skylights, and fire sprinklers. The house has appeared in books such as "San Francisco, Building the Dream City" by James Beach Alexander and "The Storied Houses of Alamo Square" by Joseph B. Pecora.