Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Tag: Presidio Pet Cemetery

  • Eternal Silence

    Eternal Silence

      The Eternal Silence, (also called Eternal Silence or Statue of Death)  marks the grave of Dexter Graves, who led a group of thirteen families that moved from Ohio to Chicago in 1831, making them some of Chicago’s earliest settlers. Graves died in 1844, seventy-five years before the creation of the statue, and sixteen years before Graceland…

  • The Presidio Pet Cemetery

    Presidio McDowell and Crissy Field Avenues This military pet cemetery is a hidden treasure of San Francisco.  If you are in the area when construction of Doyle Drive is completed, have a stroll, it is a really sweet place to wander. Surrounded by a white picket fence and shaded by Monterey pines, the pet cemetery…