PHOTOGRAPHY: architecture: San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1999

Photographs from Kodak Ektachrome film. To see a 5 inch version of each of the above images, click on the 2 inch thumbnail image. Click on digital variations to see other versions of the same images. In the northwest corner of San Francisco, surrounded by Lincoln Park , which sits on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean, is the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, modeled after the Paris Legion of Honor by George A Applegarth in 1916. The structure houses a fine arts museum, with a notable permanent collection of Rodin sculpture, 16th to 18th Century European painting, and graphic arts from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. To go to the official site for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, click here . © 1999 Jane Marie Cleveland