Tobin Clark Estate

Residential | For Sale | $29,000,000 | 35,000 sqft

For more than sixty years, the Hillsborough Mansion with the unassuming name “House-on-Hill” has been cited as one of the most spectacular private residences ever created in its fine antique English style. In the 1920s, Celia Tobin Clark, an heiress to the Hibernia Bank fortune, commissioned architect David Adler to create a Cotswold Tudor Mansion on a secluded hilltop of some 400 acres just south of San Francisco. Full-grown trees were transplanted from as far away as the Monterey Peninsula, rose terraces and formal courtyards were laid out amid the oak groves and lawns, and multiple-trunk olive trees were pruned to dip low over matching reflecting pools set in a stone terrace. Completely by hand, an architectural treasure was built.

This magnificent 35,000 square foot estate, now on six acres, evokes all the ambience and grandeur of another era. Featured as a Decorator Showcase in the early 1990's, this circa 1930 Cotswold Tutor mansion has been meticulously renovated with a superb level of fine craftsmanship, architectural design and interior finishes. Secluded from view behind classic wrought-iron gates, one enters the grounds of this estate through a dramatic lighted cobblestone drive into a large motor court with a spectacular stone fountain - a truly grand entrance for the most elegant of galas.

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