Who haunts the Whittier Mansion? There are many candidates.
The mansion on the corner of Jackson and Laguna streets has seen better days. The front door, atop the stone steps where a dashing Nazi spy once regaled overeager San Francisco reporters, is locked today. The paint on its colossal, curved Romanesque twin towers peels in the sun, exposing the original cinnamon-colored sandstone beneath.
In 1896, celebrated architect Edward R. Swain built Whittier a giant mansion. Some stories say he built it as a gift for his wife, who died in a carriage accident during its construction.Within a year of the relocation, all adult children married or moved out and left William alone in the 30-room palace, where he likely spent many lonely hours in the octagonal smoking room on the third floor. What drove Whittier's children out of the home so soon, beyond marriage, is not clear.
Either way, the paper announced that"The Whittier mansion at 2090 Jackson street is closed, and his whereabouts or the date of his homecoming are profound mysteries."On a Sunday night in 1912, a chauffeur named H. C. Freeman working for Whittier at the mansion awoke to shattering glass in his bathroom. He reported to the police that two bullets were fired from the street, through the window, and into the looking glass.
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