Legion of Honor - San Francisco
Approaching the the California Palace of the Legion of Honor from the parking lot. The Legion of Honor was given to the people of San Francisco by Alma de Bretteville Spreckels on Armistice Day in 1924 to honor the Californians who died during World War I. At the museum entrance, in the Court of Honor, stands Auguste Rodin's The Thinker. The Legion of Honor is one the two Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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The Legion of Honor is a part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The name is used both for the museum collection and for the building in which it is housed. Max Hollein currently serves as its Director and CEO. The Legion of Honor was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder Adolph B. Spreckels. The building is a full-scale replica, by George Applegarth and H. Guillaume, of the French Pavilion at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, which in turn was a three-quarter-scale version of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur also known as the Hôtel de Salm in Paris, by Pierre Rousseau (1782). At the close of the exposition, which was located just a few miles away, the French government granted Spreckels permission to construct a permanent replica of the French Pavilion, but World War I delayed the groundbreaking until 1921.
The museum building occupies an elevated site in Lincoln Park in the northwest of the city, with views over the Golden Gate Bridge. Most of the surrounding Lincoln Park Golf Course is on the site of a potter's field called the Golden Gate Cemetery that the City had bought in 1867. The cemetery was closed in 1908 and the bodies were relocated to Colma. During seismic retrofitting in the 1990s, however, coffins and skeletal remains were unearthed.
Between March 1992 and November 1995—its seventy-first anniversary—the Legion underwent a major renovation that included seismic strengthening, building systems upgrades, restoration of historic architectural features, and an underground expansion that added 35,000 square feet. Visitor services and program facilities increased, without altering the historic façade or adversely affecting the environmental integrity of the site. The architects chosen to accomplish this challenging feat were Edward Larrabee Barnes and Mark Cavagnero.
The plaza and fountain in front of the Palace of the Legion of Honor is the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first improved road for automobiles across America. The terminus marker and an interpretive plaque are located in the southwest corner of the plaza and fountain, just to the left of the Palace. Dominating the classical plaza is Pax Jerusalemme, a modern sculpture by Mark di Suvero.
The Legion of Honor displays a collection spanning more than 6,000 years of ancient and European art and houses the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in a neoclassical building overlooking Lincoln Park and the Golden Gate Bridge. The museum contains a representative collection of European art, the largest portion of which is French. Its most distinguished collection is of sculpture by Auguste Rodin.
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The Legion of Honor was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder Adolph B. Spreckels.[1] The building is a three-quarters scale imitation of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur also known as the Hôtel de Salm in Paris by George Applegarth and H. Guillaume. It was completed in 1924.
The museum building occupies an elevated site in Lincoln Park in the northwest of the city, with views over the Golden Gate Bridge. Most of the surrounding Lincoln Park Golf Course is on the site of a potter's field called the Golden Gate Cemetery that the City had bought in 1867. The cemetery was closed in 1908 and the bodies were relocated to Colma. During seismic retrofitting in the 1990s, however, coffins and skeletal remains were unearthed.[2]
The plaza and fountain in front of the Palace of the Legion of Honor is the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America. The terminus marker and an interpretive plaque are located in the southwest corner of the plaza and fountain, just to the left of the Palace.
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LEGION OF HONROR ///Offert à la ville de San Francisco par Alma de BRETTEVILLE SPRECKELS la pétillante femme du magnat de l'industrie du sucre, le California Palace of the Legion of Honor fut érigé en 1924 sur l'initiative d'Alma, qui souhaitait reproduire le pavillon de la France à l'exposition internationale Panama-Pacific de 1915 lui même inspiré du Palais de la Légion d'Honneur de Paris. Ce musée fut dédié aux 3600 Américains morts au cours de la 1e guerre mondiale. On y trouve notamment un remarquable corpus d'œuvres Européennes traversant 4000 ans, ainsi que le plus riche ensemble de sculptures d'Auguste RODIN (1840 - 1917) en dehors du musée Rodin à Paris. Au fil des années, le musée s'est en outre enrichi de remarquables tableaux et sculptures pré-modernes.. ///////// The Legion of Honor offered to the city of San-Francisco by Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, the bubbly wife of a head of the sugar industry, the Legion of Honor was erected in 1924 on the initiative of Alma who wanted to reproduce the Pavilion of France to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 itself inspired by the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Paris. The Museum was dedicated to the 3600 Americans died in the first World War. You can see such an outstanding selection of Europeans works through 4000 years and the richest collection of sculptures by August Rodin (1840 - 1917) also inspired by the Rodin Museum in Paris. Over the years, the Museum has also enriched remarkable paintings and pre-modern sculptures. s/ James Meriochaud 11 Nov. 2014
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