When timber industry scion and executive George “Fritz” Jewett and his wife Lucy moved their young family from Idaho to the Bay Area in 1965, they first settled in the woodsy Marin County community of Ross. Two decades later, the by-then empty nesters custom built a spacious home at 2990 Broadway inAn Oceanfront Compound in Hawaii Once Owned by a Rothschild Hits the Market for $32.5 MillionA Michael Jordan Logoman Patch Card Just Sold for a Record $2.
The house was designed to accommodate gracious entertaining, and indeed, the Jewetts not only frequently hosted the cream of the city’s beau monde, they also wined and dined politicians and dignitaries from around the world, as recounted in The Wall Street Journal, the first to report the listing, including George H.W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, and English royal consort Prince Philip.