Tillman Benefit Estate Sale Preview
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Tillman Estate Sale Preview
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Victorian Alliance Benefit
2826 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco, CA
Thursday November 3, 2011
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Victorian Alliance Benefit
Estate Sale Preview!
This event is an Estate Sale Benefit Preview of the original contents of the Tillman Victorian House located at 2826 Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco, CA.
Proceeds go to the Victorian Alliance! Here’s A Link To Their Website.
Refreshments
We will provide catered food and refreshments from Joshua Charles for your enjoyment.
Menu
Thinly Sliced Aged Spanish Sausage and Sheep’s Cheese with Arugula and Aioli on a Baguette
Dungeness Crab with Fuji Apple, Lemon and Chervil
Roasted Persimmon and Goat Cheese Sandwiches
Shredded Wagyu Beef Short Ribs in Smoky BBQ Sauce
Tickets For This Benefit Preview Are $20.00 and Can Be Purchased By Clicking This Link
Let’s have fun with this…wear, and display your Victorian Finery.
While attending this event participants will also have the chance to offer sealed bids on items they are interested in purchasing.
Sealed bids will be opened Friday morning, November 4, just before we open the doors to our estate sale, and the marked price or the highest offer via sealed bid will prevail at time of opening.
This Benefit Event Will Have Complimentary Valet Parking
Please Note: We will have an Estate Sale at this location on Friday November 4, Saturday November 5, and Sunday November 6 From 10:00am to 5:00pm.
This Benefit Event Is Limited to 150 Attendees!
Tickets For This Benefit Preview Are $20.00 and Can Be Purchased By Clicking This Link
Tillman House History
In about 1875 Frank Tillman, a prominent San Francisco business man, who made his fortune selling safes and scales, built a house at Larkin and Broadway for his family.
After Frank Tillman’s death, his widow determined it was in her families best interest to move the family home from Broadway and Larkin.
And move it she did in 1904 to a lot she had purchased on Van Ness Ave. near Chestnut…moving this house must have been quite a site.
On Van Ness, the house rose with a lower floor added, and became somewhat grander in scale through the addition of various architectural flourishes.
The Earthquake
In 1906 as San Francisco was aflame, most of the homes and structures along Van Ness were slated for demolition, in our fair cities attempt to create a firebreak, as indeed this house was. Dynamite was placed all around the home and for this house all was lost, but for the fact that the fire sputtered out and stopped somewhere near Vallejo, so in the end, this house was spared.
A True Time Capsule
This is very likely the last house in San Francisco that survives the Gold Rush, and Earthquake eras intact, and owned these last 135 years by the same family. Many of the homes original furnishings are still here!
Please join Fine Estate Liquidation, Inc. for a Special Benefit Estate Sale Preview of the contents of this fine and historic home.
Tickets For This Benefit Preview Are $20.00 and Can Be Purchased By Clicking This Link
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