Palace of Fine Arts

1:1500 scale miniature paper model, about 1.25 inches tall when built

The rotunda, colonnade and exhibition hall of the Palace of Fine Arts are some of the few surviving buildings of San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Designed by architect Bernard Maybeck to resemble a Roman ruin, the original rotunda was built of temporary materials for the fair and was falling into ruin before it was rebuilt in cast concrete in the 1960s.

Read more:

• Official website of The Palace of Fine Arts event space
• Descriptions of the art and architecture of the 1915 exposition by J.D. Barry, Eugen Neuhaus and Julia Lumbard James
• Sentiment in a Minor Key - SF Heritage history of the monument by Woody LaBounty
• Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda: Five Favorites - OpenSFHistory historic photographs of the rotunda
• The Palace of Fine Arts features in Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo

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