The Music Concourse

Free entertainment has been provided at the Spreckles Temple Of Music since 1882.  Different ethnic groups provide entertaitment for singing, dancing and anything that moves you.

Powell Street Railroad Station

This quaint station was used from 1988-1906, when steam trains carried visitors to the Park.

Miguel De Cervantes

This is the author's bust with Don Quixote and Sacho Panza,his two fictional creaions.

Cougar

The cougar, along wih the bear, welcomes you at the 8th Avenue entrance to the Park.

Padre Junipero Serra

Francisian Father of the California missions.  One of the Park's most favorite sculptures.

Goethe and Schiller

The two poet friends on a granite pedestal.  This is a copy of the momument in Wiemar, Germany.

James A. Garfield

One of two Presidents memorialized in the Park (Grant and Garfield).  The bronze broken sword symbolizes his assasination  

Bear

This is located at the 8th Avenue entrance to the Park.  A favorite of the children.

Father William D. McKinnon

Chaplain of the California regiment that served during the Spanish-American War in the Philippines.

Baseball Player

A mustachioed ballplayer from the 1880's, created as a symbol of national pride.

General Henry W. Halleck

Lincoln's Civil War Chief of Staff and a framer of the California Constitution.

Herschell Spillman Carrousel

The carrousel is located in the childrens'  playground and was built in 1912.

Historic Bridge

Alvord Lake Bridge believed to be the old3st bridge with steel reinforcng rods in the United States  built in 1894 by Ernest L. Ransome.

Francis Scott Key

This sculpture was a gift of James Lick.

Robert Emmett

This is a bronze sculpture of Irish Patriot Robert Emmett.

Beetovan

A bronze bust, a gift of Beetovan Maenercher of New York City.

General Pershing

General Pershing is dressed in khaki with a crushed Geman helmet at his feet.

Concrete Sphinxes

These mark the entrance to the fine arts museum of the 1894 mid-winter exposition.

Apple Cider Press

This was created for the midwinter exposition of 1894.

U S Grant

Bronze bust with list of principal battles.

The Sun Dial

The sun dial commemorates the first three navigators to the coast of California, Fortuno Ximenes in 1534, Juan De Cabrillo in 1542, and Sir Francis Drake in 1579.  

Gold Star Mothers

A 20-ton granite boulder with the names of local sons and daughters who died in the First World War..

Bronze Lion

This king of beasts was created in 1898 and moved to the Park after the disasterous 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Leonidas , Greek God

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leonidas marks the ceremonial-ground-brereaking spot for the 1894 mid-winter exposition.

Mexican Bell

Cast in 1847, it comes from a church somehwere between Vera Cruz and Mexico City.

Guiseppe Verde

Bronze bust dedicated in 1914.

St. Francis

Bronze statute in the Garden of Fragrance, Strybing Arboretum.

Budda

This was cast in 1940, and it is located in the Japanese Tea Garden.

Pioneer Mother

This was created in 1914.  It appeared at the Paama-Pacific and GoldenGate Expositions before being placed in the park near the Pioneer Log Cabin. 

The Fern Dell

Tranquil groves of tree ferns growing as high as 20 feet date back to 1898.

Prayer Book Cross

A copy of a celtic cross on the island of Iona Scotland commemorates the use of the first use of the book of common prayer in Caifornia by Francis Drake's Chaplian in 1597.

Portals Of The Past

The portico of A N Towne's Knob Hill residence, a relic from the 1906 earthquake.

Bison

The current herd of bison was relocated from Wyoming in 1984 to replace desendants of the original herd acquired in 1984.

Dutch Windmill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The windmill was built in 1902 It was designed to pump water  to a reservoir on Strawberry Hill.  It was restored in 1981.

Robert Burns

                                                              The Scottish national poet.

The Horseshoe Pitcher

Concrete bas-relief by "Vet" Anderson, a member of the horshoe club.