The Golden Gate Villa is a Queen Anne style house built in 1891 in

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. The house was designed by

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architect Thomas J. Welsh for Major Frank McLaughlin, a mining engineer and

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politician. Visitors to Golden Gate Villa included

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and

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. In the 1940s the house was operated as a restaurant, the Palais Monte Carlo. After passing through several owners, in 1963 the house was purchased by seafood magnate William W. Durney and his screenwriter wife

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, who sold it to the present owner. On July 24, 1975, the Golden Gate Villa was added to the United States

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The Golden Gate Villa by Susan Dormanen
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