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78: 166: 550: 174: 25: 157: 148: 112:. A house of luxury in stark contrast to the jail next to it, the wardens often held lavish cocktail parties here. The signpost at the spot shows a photograph of a trusted inmate doing chores at the house for the warden and that the house had a terraced garden and greenhouse. The mansion had tall windows, providing fine views of 393:
At the top of the main road are the ruins of the warden's house, which included a small greenhouse built for Warden Swope's wife Edna. Inmate Elliott Michener said he gained "a lasting interest in creativity" from eight years of building gardens on the west side. Near the end of his sentence he was
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promoted to the warden's house, and after parole he wrote to the warden, "For the first time I'm learning how much better one can do living honestly than by, say, counterfeiting! We have cars and fat bank accounts... And we have a favor to ask: will you send us a bush of our old 'Gardenia' rose?"
101:. The 3-floor 15-room mansion was built in 1921 according to the Golden Gate National Recreational Area signpost, although some sources say it was built in 1926 or 1929 and had 17 or 18 rooms. 741: 1074: 654: 479: 530: 42: 353: 315: 277: 246: 608: 446: 1064: 756: 64: 1069: 746: 736: 577: 523: 986: 1018: 936: 596: 592: 715: 46: 35: 848: 674: 587: 1059: 569: 516: 120: 198: 907: 786: 669: 141:
The slope below the Warden's House has been the subject of structural remediation as it was deteriorating.
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Hughes, Holly; Murphy, Sylvie; Flippin, Alexis Lipsitz; Duchaine, Julie (2 February 2010).
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Sloate, Susan; Cochran, Josh (Illustrator) (April 1, 2008).
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was the home of the wardens of the federal penitentiary on
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on June 1, 1970. AIM tried to put out the flames, but a
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The Warden's House is labelled on the map of Alcatraz
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