Guggenheim did not own Kobe house that still bears his name : The Asahi Shimbun
The Guggenheim House is seen in the Shioyacho district of Kobe’s Tarumi Ward. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) KOBE--Long known as the “Guggenheim House,” a landmark Western-style building here is having its history rewritten after experts discovered that Jacob Guggenheim never lived there. It has been believed that the building in Kobe’s Shioyacho district was the mansion of Jacob Guggenheim (1874-1940), a German-American trading merchant distantly related to the family of the same name known for the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The two-storied edifice of colonial style is a popular venu...