Overview

This was the residence of William T. Coleman (1824–1893), a vigilante leader in San Francisco in the 1850s. According to Betty Belt in her 1947 M.A. thesis, "The Leland Stanford Home in San Francisco," "[The Coleman House] was a two story white building with Classical detail, broad verandas, and a square 'captain's watch.'" (See Betty C. Belt, "The Leland Stanford Home in San Francisco," [Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 1947], p. 9.) Coleman was a leading member of San Francisco's Committees of Vigilance in 1851 and 1856, working alongside San Francisco's tenth Mayor Henry F. Teschemacher (1823-1904) and Chief of Police James F. Curtis (1825–1914) to stem lawlessness in the city.

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