The Willis Polk house is on the right behind the trees. The house on the left was designed by William Wurster in 1958 for Anna Spreckels Coleman. It was extensively remodeled by a Silicon Valley billionaire.

The house on the left is associated with Oracle and the house on the right is associated with Shaklee. I've worked for both companies. How small the Bay Area is.

Willis Polk designed this residence for Andrew and Julia Welch. Andrew Welch was heir to a shipping fortune.

The twenty-two room residence includes a Spanish Renaissance courtyard modeled on the atrium of the Casa de Zaporta in Saragossa, Spain. After the original was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, it was rebuilt based upon Polk's design.

Julia Welch, who was a devout Roman Catholic, willed the building to the Archdiocese of San Francisco. It was the Archiepiscopal Palace until 1979 when it was purchased by Dodie and John Rosekrans Jr.

John Rosecrans was heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune. Dodie Rosecrans was a fashionista whose father had owned United Artists. John died in 2001 and Dodie died in 2010.