Cliff House

I randomly came across this image, below, of Adolph Sutro's now-lost Cliff House, perched on the rocks outside San Francisco. It stood for eleven years, from 1896-1907, before being destroyed by fire. [Image: The Sutro Cliff House, San Francisco]. This gallery of images is extraordinary; the house is so badly situated on its site that it appears simply to be hovering over the rocks on an...