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.
Female figures at base of spires, by Eugene Louis Boutier; purely ornamental.
Lavish decorations on building suggest variety and abundance of California horticulture. Floral designs; green wreaths with fruit motives and leaves; lamps; flowered shields over doorway; decorated columns; entrance under green lattice-work; great ornamental vases on sides.
Female figures used as columns supporting roof of porch, the caryatides, by John Bateman.
Building suggests festivity, done in exposition spirit.
Coloring, green, old copper. Green lattice-work in domes.