US$16m historic house in San Francisco up for sale
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IN 1906, Elizabeth Leslie Meyerfeld married Leon Lazare Roos. Her father, who owned a chain of theatres, promised the couple a new house.
Under any circumstance, a new house would be a substantial wedding present. But given that the newlyweds were in San Francisco, a city that had just seen 56 per cent of its population rendered homeless by an earthquake and the resultant fire, the area's real estate was in a particularly acute state of flux.
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