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FEBRUARY 3, 1918: Helene Strybing purchased the Edgar DePue house at 2311 Scott Street across the street from San Francisco’s Alta Plaza Park. When she died, most of her money was a bequeathed for the creation of a botanical garden Golden Gate Park.

In 1900 John McLaren[1], Superintendent of Golden Gate Park[2], envisioned a botanical garden in the park, but San Franciscans rejected a measure put on the…

JANUARY 29, 1998: Joseph Alioto died in San Francisco, but this would not be the end of the Alioto dynasty.

When one thinks of families that impacted San Francisco’s political and cultural landscape, names like Sutro[1], Spreckels[2] and de Young[3] immediately come to mind. With the arrival…