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San Francisco Sights

Palace of Fine Arts

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  • Address
    • Palace Dr
  • Transport
    • 28, 30, 43, 76

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Lonely Planet review for Palace of Fine Arts

Like a fossilized party favor, this romantic, fake Greco-Roman ruin is the memento San Francisco decided to keep from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The original was built in wood, burlap and plaster by celebrated Berkeley architect Bernard Maybeck as a picturesque backdrop, and by the 1960s was beginning to crumble. The structure was recast in concrete, so that future generations could gaze up at the rotunda relief to glimpse ‘Art Under Attack by Materialists, with Idealists Leaping to her Rescue.’

 

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