Lincoln Park (San Francisco)
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The Lincoln Park in San Francisco , California in 1909 US President Abraham Lincoln dedicated.
location
The 0.4 km² large facility is located in the northwest of the San Francisco peninsula and was a cemetery from 1870 onwards, in which Chinese and immigrants in particular were buried. In 1909 it became a park. It is located north of the Richmond borough at the western end of the Lincoln Highway , the first transcontinental road link in the United States, inaugurated in 1913 . In 1928, a par-68 golf course opened here, where the annual San Francisco City Golf Championship takes place.
Worth seeing
The Legion of Honor art museum has existed here since 1923, a gallery with paintings by Édouard Manet , Paul Cézanne , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other French impressionists and also curates changing temporary exhibitions and graphic collections, the strengths being in the old masters area, the nineteenth century , especially France, with one of the best Rodin collections in the world.
The building is a copy of the Légion d'honneur building in Paris and, typically San Francisco, was built here on a scale of one to three quarters. The founder, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1968), was a slightly eccentric, very interesting woman, her collection is the basis.
The museum is well known, also because Alfred Hitchcock shot famous scenes there for his film “ Vertigo ” in 1958 .
Web links
- Lincoln Golf course (English)
- Filming the opening ceremony (English)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 37 ° 47 '2.4 " N , 122 ° 30' 10.8" W.