Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA

Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of the most triumphantly sumptuous of all the Peninsula's great houses.

Survey number: HABS CA-2117

Building/structure dates: 1915- 1918 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1928 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1920 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75000479

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1918 - 1980

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