A six-story mansion perched atop Russian Hill — with panoramic views, a turbulent love story and a reported stint as an opium den — is on the market for $25 million.
Known as the Verdier Mansion, the green Tudor-style home at 1001 Vallejo St. is on the market for the first time in 20 years. The 9,545-square-foot home has six bedrooms, six bathrooms, two powder rooms, an elevator, wine cellar, gardens, terraces and an interior courtyard.
The home also made a brief appearance in the second season of Netflix’s mystery drama series “The OA.”
Architect Houghton Sawyer designed the home at the turn of the 20th century for mining and railroad magnate Robert G. Hanford, who commissioned it for Gabrielle Guittard Cavalsky, a member of the family behind Guittard Chocolate.
The two began a relationship while married to other people, then later married each other four days after Hanford’s divorce. But their union was short-lived and the two later divorced.
Construction was nearing completion when the 1906 earthquake struck. After Hanford left the house, it was bought by Paul Verdier in 1919, an heir to the City of Paris department store fortune. The mansion later acquired its name from him.
After the Verdier family left in the 1950s, squatters entered through underground tunnels and turned it into an opium den, according to SFGate.…