Palace of Fine Arts - San Francisco, CA
Posted by: ucdvicky
N 37° 48.130 W 122° 26.848
10S E 548640 N 4184009
Landmark in San Francisco's Marina District.
Waymark Code: WM2QK5
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/08/2007
Views: 43
From California: Guide to the Golden State:
"The PALACE OF FINE ARTS, Baker St. between Jefferson and Bay Sts., is the last surviving building of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. This neo-classic structure, built on land
reclaimed from the bay, is of brown stucco with a Roman rotunda and
Corinthian peristyle. Once an art gallery, it is now used for indoor
tennis. Two ornamental gondolas float on the lagoon before the Palace
entrance."
Those tennis courts are gone, as are the gondolas.
Book: California
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 287
Year Originally Published: 1939
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