New de Young Museum Design by Herzog & de Meuron Engineering by Fong & Chan Seismic Engineering!
The new de Young was engineered with the latest seismic standards. Each vertical steel beam was set in a seismic isolator, so that it had a certain movement tolerance, allowing the entire structure to shift as a unit in a quake.
Reopened October 15, 2005 Infrastructure of creating a parking garage, while restoring the historic aspects of the Midwinter Fair Valley
Tons of Dirt Moved!
10th Ave. Entrance
Once Controversial South Entrance/Exit
Stow Lake Boat House Opened in 1893 Torn down in 1937 as a WPA Project
Boating Concession Reestablished in1943
Alpine-style Chalet designed in 1946, completed in 1949
John McLaren Rhododendron Dell Statue Theft Attempt - December 1953
Santa Maria de Ovila Dismantled Monastery Cloister - 1930 Santa María de Óvila [ o Madrid Monastery Complex begun in 1181, by Church Portal the Cistercian Order of Monks. Church Church Portal consecrated 1213. Buildings altered and added to for the next 5 Centuries. Confiscated in1820. Abandoned in 1835. Purchased by William Randolph Hearst - 1931 Julia Morgan
Haslett Warehouse - Beach & Hyde Sts. 10,000 stone, weighing approximately 2,200 tons, hastily removed from Spain and shipped in 11 ship- loads to San Francisco for a ground-breaking at Wyntoon in July, Julia Morgan Plan for Wyntoon 1931. Hearst wavers, and the stones are put in storage at the Haslett Warehouse. Hearst files for Covered Swimming Pool bankruptcy in 1937, having never paid the storage fees at the warehouse. 1940, Hearst tried to get rid of the stones - no takers. August, 1941, Herbert Fleishhacker persuades Hearst to give the stones to the City of San Francisco, in exchange for paying the 10 years of warehouse storage debt. Stones are moved behind the Japanese Tea Garden.
. . . 0 1959 Fire 1941 - First of 5 fires 1959 - The last fire, but one of many attributed to Magid Bateh.
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