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.