The Flood Mansion was the only great Nob Hill house to survive the 1906 Fire, saved just barely by its Connecticut brownstone walls. The Pacific Union Club purchased the shell, and William Bourn, who was on the building committee, secured the reconstruction commission for Willis Polk.

The Flood Mansion remains the home of the Pacific Union Club and is decidedly not open to the public. Not ever. Not under any circumstances. It is barely open to the wives of the members.

For more information about the Flood Mansion, please see National Register Landmark 66000230.

For more information about Willis Polk, a major architect of the First Bay Tradition, please see the Hallidie Building, San Francisco Landmark 37.