Twelve accommodations, each dressed differently

Original Louis Icart etchings, a California King dressed in Italian linen, and a southwest-facing bathroom that keeps the last of the afternoon. The soaking tub is worth planning an evening around.

Separate rooms to sit in and to sleep in, floor-to-ceiling windows on the corner of the mansion, and a Portoro marble vanity. The city arrives through the glass.

One open room laid over travertine, with a California King at one end and a Queen sleeper sofa at the other. Behind it, a walk-in shower and a Japanese soaking tub.

A King bed and a shower room of its own. The plainest of the twelve, and the one that makes the case for plainness.

A bay window lounge, antique furnishings, and one and a half bathrooms clad in marble. The fireplace is decorative, laid for the look of it, never lit.

Toile de Jouy on the walls, a bay window nook to read in, and a Nero Portoro bathroom with a soaking tub. Step-free, and the easiest room in the mansion to reach.

French toile on every wall, a Minton-tiled fireplace, and a Nero Portoro bathroom with a soaking tub. One of the most decorated rooms in the mansion.

Southwest over Cathedral Hill, watercolors of the old city on the walls, and a wet room tiled in Crema Marfil. The afternoon light is the whole point of the room.

French dormer windows facing southeast, a velvet headboard, and a shower room built deliberately oversized. Morning light, for anyone who wants it.

A dormer room under a skylight, mohair at the headboard, and a Moroccan-tiled bathroom with a rainforest shower. Here the light comes from above.

The grandest of the twelve: a skylit lounge, a private patio, a Carrara marble minibar, and a clawfoot tub standing in a wet room of its own.

A Biedermeier reading nook, a clawfoot tub under Moroccan tile, and dormer windows looking onto a nineteenth-century street. The most romantic room in the mansion.