Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Category: Lands End

  • SurfHenge

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    Taraval and 48th Street Sunset District These sculptures designed by DPW landscape architect Martha Ketterer  are part of the Taraval Streetscape Improvement Project.  The design combines the lightness and fragility of surfboards or sails with monumental weight and verticality.  The work was then adorned with tile work by Colette Crutcher suggestng the ceaseless dance of…

  • Fire Pits on Ocean Beach

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    Ocean Beach There is only one beach in San Francisco where bonfires are allowed. In response to beachgoers’ concerns that beach fires were leaving unsafe debris on the beach, as well as concerns about smoke blowing into neighborhood homes, Golden Gate National Parks initiated a public process to consider the future of fires on Ocean…

  • The Totem Pole at the Cliff House

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    Cliff House Land’s End According to the San Francisco Public Library  there was a small news copy regarding the totem pole when it was installed.  The publication date was not noted but it appears to be April 28th, 1949. Newscopy: “Chief Mathias Joe Capilano of the Squamish Indians of Western Canada, he carve ‘um 58-foot totem…

  • Elegant Stag Poses at Lands End Lookout

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    Lands End Lookout GGNRA 680 Point Lobos This stag sits in a small seating area at the front entrance to the new Lands End Lookout building. This is a copy of a statue that originally sat in the park across the street, Sutro Heights Park.  The two lions that grace the entry to the park,…

  • Sutro Heights Park

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    Point Lobos Avenue Land’s End Copy of the original lion that stood at the Sutro Heights entry gate. (Photo credit: UC Bancroft Library) Adolph Sutro (1830-1898) was one of San Francisco’s most beloved mayors and esteemed citizens. Originally from Prussia, he amassed millions in the Comstock Lode (Nevada Silver Rush of 1859) by designing and…

  • The Beach Chalet

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    Designed by architect Willis Polk, the Beach Chalet has served as a gathering spot on Ocean Beach for most of its life. With its hipped roof and hand-made roof tiles, this Spanish Revival building survived a takeover by the US Army, the raucous residence of a biker bar and 15 years of abandonment. Today it houses two…

  • San Francisco’s Holocaust Memorial

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    Land’s End Legion of Honor Holocaust Memorial by George Segal Time has taken its’ toll on this memorial.  The hand on the man above was not to touch the wire as they were electrified.  *  * This memorial shows ten figures sprawled, recalling post-war photographs of the camps.  Placement of this work was controversial.  The…

  • Joan of Arc at the Palace of the Legion of Honor

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    Lands End Legion of Honor * * Joan of Arc by Anna Huntington Joan of Arc, nicknamed “The Maid of Orléans” is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred…

  • Roald Amundsen at the Beach Chalet

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    Land’s End Beach Chalet 1000 The Great Highway * This memorial sits in the parking lot of the Beach Chalet, it has been there since 1930. It marks where Amundsen’s ship, the Gjoa (pronounced “Joe”) was in dry-dock. It had been pulled ashore here in 1909, and placed on dry-dock display. Amundsen donated the ship…

  • Beach Chalet Murals Part III

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    Land’s End The Beach Chalet – Part III 1000 The Great Highway Lucien Labaudt’s Beach Chalet murals: John McLaren (G.G. Park Superintendent) in left foreground on bench, with Jack Spring (later General Manager of Parks and Rec Dept.) holding redwood tree’s root ball, while behind on horseback (upper right corner) sit sculptor Benny Bufano and…

  • Beach Chalet Murals – Part II

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    Land’s End The Beach Chalet Part II 1000 The Great Highway * * It was common for WPA muralists to place people they knew or people of note in their work.  Here Lucien Labaudt inserts Arthur Brown Jr.. Brown was the Architect of City Hall (shown over his left shoulder) and architect of Coit Tower,…

  • Lands End – Kanrin Maru Monument

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    Land’s End Legion of Honor  * The plaque at this reads:  This monument is erected to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese Naval Ship Kanrin Maru in San Francisco on 17 March, 1860. The Kanrin Maru crossed the Pacific at the same time as the U.S.S. Powhatan which brought the first Japanese Embassy to the…

  • Land’s End – Great Nature

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    Land’s End Legion of Honor The stone reads:  We are grateful, as we stand facing this monument, for the infinite gifts of heaven and earth.  We recognize once again the true fundamental of the human should that pursues the truth, implements the good, creates beauty, and renews his will to step forward.  This way brings…

  • Lands End – USS San Francisco Memorial

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    Lands End 48th Avenue Parking Lot In 1942 the cruiser USS San Francisco attacked a vastly superior Japanese force off the coast of Guadalcanal. It was the most brutal close-quarters naval engagement of World War II. The San Francisco took some 45 direct hits and sustained heavy damage while sinking one Japanese ship and seriously…

  • Land’s End – Lincoln Highway

    Land’s End – Lincoln Highway

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    Land’s End Legion of Honor The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental auto trails in the United States of America. Conceived and promoted by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, the Lincoln Highway spanned coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through 13 states: New York,…

  • Land’s End – El Cid

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    Land’s End Palace of the Legion of Honor * El Cid by Anna Huntington This piece is part of the Collection of the Fine Arts Museum. It sits on the lawn in front of the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043 – July 10, 1099), known as El Cid Campeador…

  • Lincoln Park – Pax Jerusalem

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    Lincoln Park Legion of Honor * * Pax Jerusalem by Mark di Suvero This piece sits on the sculpture pad in front of the Legion of Honor, one of our finer museums in San Francisco.  It is by Mark di Suvero, who has been in this blog before.  It was controversial the day it was…

  • Lands End – Labyrinth

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    Land’s End * * This labyrinth is at Land’s End in San Francisco, on the Coastal Trail. Created by Eduardo Aguilera in 2004, it is a hike to get to but well worth the trek. The easiest hike is to park at the Palace of the Legion of Honor and walk towards the ocean. You…

  • Lands End – Chinese Cemetery

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    Lincoln Park Golf Course Chinese Cemetery 1st and 13th Fairway * * * At the turn of the 20th century there were no municipal golf courses in San Francisco or, for that matter, in any of the surrounding communities. However by 1902 golf was fast gaining popularity, and many private golf and country clubs were…