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Title: [Dr. Lyford's Stone Tower]
Contributor: Behrnd, Gustav A
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1889 and 1920]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Elevated view of tower, walkway over road, bay.
2013-0022.
Stone Tower (also called Stone Lodge, the Castle, or Lyford's Tower) built about 1889 by Gustav A. Behrnd for Dr. Benjamin F. Lyford as gateway to his Utopean tract, "Hygeia, or goddess of Health." Stone archway crossed Paradise Drive until removed in 1920's. Example of Richardson Romanesque architecture.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 1/2 x 9 in.
Identifier: (C)001487943CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Lyford, Benjamin F.--Homes and haunts--California--Tiburon--Photographs
Towers--California--Tiburon
Bays (Bodies of water)--California
Tiburon (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Tiburon
Tiburon (Calif.)

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