Rosecroft (San Diego)
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Rosecroft
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| Location | 530 Silvergate Ave., San Diego, California |
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| Coordinates | 32°41′51″N 117°14′44″W / 32.69750°N 117.24556°WCoordinates: 32°41′51″N 117°14′44″W / 32.69750°N 117.24556°W |
| Area | 2.4 acres (0.97 ha) |
| Built | 1912 |
| Architectural style | Italian Renaissance |
| NRHP Reference # | 03000472 |
| Added to NRHP | September 22, 2003 |
Rosecroft is currently for sale see MLS for details, owner. The scott E. clifton revocable trust, Thankyou
Rosecroft is a historic estate and gardens in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego, California. It was built in 1912 by architect Emmor Brooke Weaver for wealthy heiress Marion James Robinson, née Marion James Duncan (1873-1918), and her husband Alfred D. Robinson (1866-1942), a retired medical instrument merchant. Rosecroft is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The 15,000-square-foot, Italian Renaissance style mansion, located on Silvergate Avenue in the Wooded Area of Point Loma, sits on 2.5 acres and is considered the largest parcel in the area. The property was originally 10 acres of barley fields. The Robinsons bought the property in 1903 after becoming interested in the ideas of Theosophist Katherine Tingley, who was developing a utopian community "Lomaland" in the Point Loma area. They developed the fields into half a city block of gardens, where they cultivated various ornamental plants, particularly begonias. Marion named the property "Rosecroft" in recognition of her Scottish Highland ancestry.
Marion and Alfred were co-founders, along with Kate Sessions, of the San Diego Floral Association, and Alfred was the association's first president, as well as the editor of its magazine, California Garden. Alfred, a self-taught horticulturist, began by experimenting with roses and dahlias, but eventually came to focus on begonias. He became "the pre-eminent begonia expert", developing more than 100 new varieties at the Rosecroft estate. Alfred's were judged "the finest begonias to be grown anywhere in the world" by plant explorer and botanist David Fairchild.
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