The House in Pacific Heights where Luigi, Paolina and Nelina Played for Wealthy Music Lovers

2698 Pacific Street, built 1906 by Julius J. Mack, whose wealth came from the wholesale drug company, J.J. Mack.  The room on the lower left was the music room of this gracious mansion where musical evenings were held for the social elite of San Francisco, including Alma Spreckels, the doyenne of San Francisco society, who found the room's acoustics "beautiful;" and Sigmund Stern and his wife Rosalie Meyer Stern (sister of Washington Post founder Eugene Meyer), who went on to donate and fund Sigmund Stern Grove, the lovely outdoor theater home of summer concerts in San Francisco.

This 1912 article from the San Francisco Chronicle is the first time that Luigi's name appeared in a newspaper, but it wasn't the last! Kohler and Chase Hall was at 26 O'Farrell St. and held many classical music concerts over the years.