Ralston Hall located in Belmont, San Mateo County, California, was the country house of William Chapman Ralston, a San Francisco businessman and founder of the Bank of California.
Ralston Hall is situated on the campus Notre Dame de Namur University, on the San Francisco Peninsula in comparision to its heydays in the late 1800s when the leaders and first citizens had large summer homes on the Peninsula and was an integral part of San Francisco high society.
The Hall is a four floor, 55,000 sq ft mansion, with a stately dining room, a mirrored ballroom and an opera box modelled after the Paris Opera House,
and is on the National Register of Historic Landmarks.
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