Editing Filoli (section)

===Bourn family===
Filoli was built between 1915 and 1917 for [[William Bowers Bourn II]], owner of one of California's richest gold mines and president of [[Spring Valley Water Company]], which supplied San Francisco's water,<ref>{{Citation |last=McDermott |first=Jeanne |date=March 1984 |title=Filoli |periodical=Horticulture |pages=28–35}}</ref> and his wife, Agnes Moody Bourn. They wanted a country estate nearer to their home in San Francisco.<ref name="McDermott 1984:30">McDermott 1984:30.</ref> The principal designer, San Francisco [[architect]] [[Willis Polk]], used a free [[Georgian architecture|Georgian style]] that incorporated the tiled roofs characteristic of California.<ref>{{Citation |last=Papoulias |first=Alexander |date=April 28, 2008 |title='Country Elegance' in Woodside |periodical= Palo Alto Online |url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=7871 }}</ref> Polk had previously designed Bourn's houses in Grass Valley and on Webster Street in San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Architect had designs on San Francisco|url=https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Architect-had-designs-on-San-Francisco-3255794.php|last=Weinstein|first=Dave|date=January 3, 2009|website=SFGate|access-date=May 4, 2020}}</ref> Polk's friend, artist and designer [[Bruce Porter]], was commissioned to collaborate with the Bourns in planning the gardens, which were laid out between 1917 and 1922. The horticulturist who designed the plantings and fixed the original color schemes was [[Isabella Worn]]; she supervised the garden's maintenance for 35 years.<ref name="McDermott 1984:30"/>

Filoli served as one of the Bourns' residences from 1917 to 1936. The name of the estate is an [[acronym]] formed by combining the first two letters from the key words of William Bourn's credo: "'''Fi'''ght for a just cause; '''Lo'''ve your fellow man; '''Li'''ve a good life."<ref name="Rogers" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=DeVere|first=Julia Bly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2e6DQAAQBAJ|title=Filoli: Family Home; Historic Garden; Living Museum|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2017|isbn=978-1-78442-155-7|pages=11–13}}</ref>

Bourn's Spring Valley Water Company owned [[Crystal Springs Park, California|Crystal Springs Reservoir]] and the surrounding area. Bourn called the Crystal Springs Reservoirs "Spring Valley Lakes" for his company. The original Spring Valley was between Mason and Taylor Streets, and Washington and Broadway Streets in [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], where the water company started. When the company went south for more water, the Spring Valley name was carried south too.<ref>{{cite book |title=California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names |author=Erwin G. Gudde |author2=William Bright |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kqwt5RlMVBoC&q=spring+valley |page=372 |access-date=March 20, 2012 |publisher=University of California Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-520-24217-3 }}</ref>

Bourn also owned [[Muckross House]] in Ireland and is reputed to have used Muckross as a model for Filoli.