Lands End Lookout
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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, as well as the entry to the lookout, and the history of that park can be found here.
Sutro collected statues after traveling to Europe, to recreate a European garden around his home. He did not buy and ship home works of art from other countries, like many other wealthy people such as William Randolph Hearst. When he saw something he liked, he would have a statue maker in Antwerp, Belgium make copies. The Lions are copies of those in London’s Trafalgar Square—making the two currently at the gate copies of copies.
This stag was copied in cast stone by an unknown artist in the 1980’s.
The new building designed by San Francisco’s EHDD was dedicated in December 0f 2012. It is the latest in a series of upgrades that follow the 1993 master plan for the Sutro Historic District done by the National Park Service and implemented in partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, donated $8.6 million to the Lands End efforts.
An elegant creature!