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Garden of Allah |
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Oral History of Beryl Jean Symmes - Oral History
Beryl Jean Symmes grew up in Richmond, Surrey, England. In 1943 she met Laurence M. Symmes Jr., an American serviceman. They married in 1947, and Laurence brought her to Mill Valley where he had settled after the war with his aunt Ruth Boericke White, the widow of Ralston White, who owned the Garden of Allah. Beryl and Laurence spent two weeks living at the famous Mill Valley residence before moving into their own home, named El Nido (The Nest), ...
Record Type: Archive
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Oral History of Gordon Foster - Oral History
The Reverend Gordon Foster was born August 28, 1914 in Detroit. His father was dean of Springfield College in Massachusetts, and while the family lived there young Gordon contracted polio and lost the use of one arm. While being treated in Warm Springs, Georgia, the family became friends with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his family. Gordon's family subsequently moved to southern California, where he met his wife Marjorie while in college. After ...
Record Type: Archive
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Oral History of Jean Barnard - Oral History
Jean Barnard was born in New York on October 30th, 1918 and graduated from Vassar College in 1940. Jean was a summer visitor in Mill Valley from 1919 to 1930, her family traveling from the East Coast by train to visit her Aunt Ruth Boericke and Ruth's husband, Ralston White, at their "Garden of Allah" estate. During her visits to Mill Valley, Jean's family would take the train up the winding mountain railroad and enjoy Mill Valley's scenic outdoo...
Record Type: Archive
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Oral History of Ruth White Bowie - Oral History
Ruth White Bowie was one of Mill Valley's grande dames in the true sense, though she would have deplored the use of the term. Ruth was born in San Francisco, and she and her twin sister were educated at Miss West's private school in the city, then at the Waltham School for Girls near Boston and Briarcliff Manor on the Hudson. In 1910, Ruth married Ralston L. White, a member of one of Mill Valley's most influential families. In this oral history, ...
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Ralston White Mansion (retreat), date unknown - Print, Photographic
2014.011.017.003
Record Type: Photo
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The "Garden of Allah" at the Ralston L. White Retreat, 1950 - Print, Photographic
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