Within a crescent-shaped valley stands the beautiful 37-room Dunsmuir House, an example of colonial revival Victorian architecture. Alexander Dunsmuir, heir to a Canadian coal and lumber fortune, built it in 1899 on a 415-acre estate for his bride, Mrs. Josephine Wallace. He died in 1900 and she in 1901. In 1906, her daughter Edna Wallace Hooper sold it to the I.W. Hellman, Jr. family, who used it as a summer residence for over 50 years. Now located on a 49-acre site, it belongs to the City of Oakland and is being restored by Dunsmuir House and Gardens, Inc., a non-profit corporation.