Vanderlip Mansion

In Palos Verdes, California there is a big private gated community. At the top of the hill that the community is on, there is a huge mansion that is said to be `Vanderlip mansion. ` The story that I have heard is that Frank Vanderlip created the whole city of Palos Verdes, and he and his family were very wealthy and high class. Vanderlip’s daughter fell in love with an African American man, which was considered very bad for a white person to do back then. Vanderlip forbade the relationship from happening between his daughter and her black lover, but she did it anyway, and she later became pregnant with his child. Vanderlip built an insane asylum across the street from his house, and put his daughter in there, and killed her lover and her baby. Vanderlip’s daughter committed suicide, and it is said that she still haunts the Vanderlip mansion. I don’t know if it’s true or not, I thought I would share it with you all.

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