Silicon Valley Estates: Top Photos

Billionaire compounds where tech fortunes materialised into glass and concrete

Detail of Uplands Mansion, house of Charles Templeton Crocker, Hillsborough, California; designed by Willis Polk & Co., Architects. Taken from Plate 47, as published in The Architect (Vol. 11, No.
Uplands Mansion in Hillsborough, built for Charles Templeton Crocker — the architectural grammar of old Peninsula money, before the semiconductor pioneers and their ranch-style spreads changed the vocabulary entirely. © Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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