Official Guide to the California Midwinter Exposition in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Official Guide to the California Midwinter Exposition in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Author: San Francisco. California
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230107660

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...The original log cabins in which ii vcd John W. Mackay, Bret Harte. U. S. Senator George C. Perkins. Mark Twain, U. S. Senator J. P. Jones. Major W. Downie. li you are out for plcasur c you must see the '4.9 Mining Camp. Any ofihc roads leading westerly from the Horticultural Building will bring you there. _ GET A MOVE ON YOURSELF! ROUMANIAN, SERVIA AND MONTENEGRO PALACE. First Roumanian Royal Concert Band of Bucharest, and the International Beauty Chorus of 2o beautiful ladies of every nationality, in their native original costumes. CQNCERTS CONTINUALLY. First-Class Roumanian Cafe and Restaurant. First-Class Table at Low Prices. Special Meals in Roumanian Style. Rou mania, Servia and Montenegro Building, and Concert Hall.--Situated near the northwest corner of the Grand Court, between the Administration and the Hall of Agriculture. This building is entitled to special attention on account of its national character and its ornamental design. It was one of the first planned among the foreign buildings and is the largest. In its general features it combines the architectural beauties of St. Isaac's Cathedral of Moscow with the quaint construction of the three countries whose names it bears. The same may be said of its embellishment, which reproduces the mural decorations of some of the famous public buildings of Roumania, Servia and Montenegro. The floor plan is 80 feet by 125 feet in size, and is divided into various apartments, each devoted to a special exhibit. The talented and much Rouu/mm, Snnvu AND Mouranauao BUILDING. admired Queen of Roumania has, we are told, taken a personal interest in the display made here and has contributed toward it some rare laces, the value of which will be much enhanced in every one's...

Official guide book

Official guide book
Author: San Francisco Bay Exposition Company
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release:
Genre: Exhibition buildings
ISBN:

San Francisco's Golden Gate Park

San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
Author: Chris Pollock
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2001
Genre: Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.)
ISBN: 1558685456

This gorgeous book captures the wonders of this park by the bay. Filled with color photos and historical documents documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past.

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930
Author: Terence Young
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2004-02-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801874321

In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares where they could retreat from urban crowding, noise, and filth. Five short years later, city supervisors approved the creation of Golden Gate Park, the second largest urban park in America. Over the next sixty years, and particularly after 1900, a network of smaller parks and parkways was built, turning San Francisco into one of the nation's greenest cities. In Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, Terence Young traces the history of San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which made no provision for a public park, through the private garden movement of the 1850s and 1860, Frederick Law Olmsted's early involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion of green space in the first third of the twentieth century. Young documents this history in terms of the four social ideals that guided America's urban park advocates and planners in this period: public health, prosperity, social coherence, and democratic equality. He also differentiates between two periods in the history of American park building, each defined by a distinctive attitude towards "improving" nature: the romantic approach, which prevailed from the 1860s to the 1880s, emphasized the beauty of nature, while the rationalistic approach, dominant from the 1880s to the 1920s, saw nature as the best setting for uplifting activities such as athletics and education. Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.