Whittier Mansion is an historical building at 2090 Jackson Street in

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, US. It is listed on the

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and is also a

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History

Designed by architect Edward Robinson Swain and built in 1896 by the family of financier William Franklin Whittier, it contains 30 rooms. Construction included steel-reinforced brick walls and a facing of Arizona red sandstone. The building was a private residency, and it later served as the German

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for the

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in 1941, during the rise of

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, after World War II in 1950 the house was seized and sold at auction and returned to a private residency for many years, followed by the house being occupied by the

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(1956–1991). It is purported to be haunted.

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