Vista from south, graceful curve of court, view through north portal through Court of the Four Seasons, long colonnade, to purple bills and bay beyond.
Palace of Horticulture
Palace of Horticulture, Bakewell & Brown, architects, San Francisco.
Architecture dome and spires Byzantine, suggest mosque of Ahmed the
First, in Constantinople. Ornamentation Renaissance, popular with modern
French architects.
Basket on top of dome, 33 feet in diameter.
Dome, 186 feet in height, 152 feet in diameter steel construction St.
Peter's, 137 feet, concrete. Pantheon, 142 feet, concrete.
Ornamental shafts, suggestive of minarets, in French style.
Semi-circular colonnade forming entrances, French lattice-work.
Hanging lamp, in entrances, flower basket design; elaborate.
Lamps, hanging along porches, simple design.