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Title
Gate and drive to the Charles Bach estate in Kentfield, Marin County, California, circa 1902 [photograph]
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1902
Publication Information
Marin County Free Library. Anne T. Kent California Room
Contributing Institution
Marin County Free Library
Collection
Kentfield - Charles Bach Collection, c.1895-1930
Rights Information
unknown
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Description
The gate and drive of Charles Bach estate in Kentfield, Marin County, California, circa 1902. Charles H. Bach, born in Erfurt, Germany in 1841, married Emilie Rittmeyer and moved to San Francisco (by way of Amador County) around 1874. He joined the malting business of F. Scherr, which he eventually purchased, and renamed the Charles Bach Company, Incorporated. On July 14, 1892, he bought 5.733 acres of land in Ross Valley for a down payment of $10.00 in gold coins. On this site he built his home, which the San Francisco Call referred to as a "country residence." Bach called this retreat Quisisana, named for a resort on the island of Capri where the family, which included five children, stayed in 1884; the name translates to "here you can recover." Sometime between 1896 and 1897, the family became permanent residents of Kentfield. A fire on January 19, 1901 destroyed the home, and soon after it was replaced with a late-Queen Anne-style estate designed by architect Hermann Barth of San Francisco. After Charles' death in 1904, his eldest son, Alfred, raised his own family on the estate.
Type
image
Format
1 glass plate, b&w ; 12.5 x 20 cm.
Identifier
csrcl_914
Bach19/1146.001.060/csrcl_914
ark:/13030/kt5h4nf3vp
http://contentdm.marinlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/bach/id/10
Language
English
Subject
Estates
Architecture, Domestic
Bach, Charles, 1841-1904
Place
Marin County (Calif.)
Kentfield (Calif.)
Relation
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0q2nc5z2
http://marinlibrary.org/californiaroom

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