96 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM words by JOHANNA HARLOW How country manors gave way to Peninsula homes Estates to Neighborhoods ABOVE: Linden Towers on the Flood Estate in Atherton, before it became the Lindenwood neighborhood. Before it became the residential haven we know and love today, the Peninsula was a playground for San Francisco’s most prosperous denizens. During the Gilded Age, titans of industry and their families escaped the throngs of humanity and constant fog of the City for serene vistas, sunshine and solace at their country estates. Since then, their carriage houses have been replaced by two-car garages, their butlers by doorbell cameras. But tales of their storied estates live on. Step back to this bygone era to find out which neighborhoods once harbored the cavernous Victorian mansions and glamorous gardens of the 19th century’s empire builders.
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