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	California Palace of the Legion of Honor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California.
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor (often abbreviated to simply Legion of Honor by locals) is a fine-art museum in San Francisco, California.
		The plaza and fountain in front of the Palace of Legion of Honor is the Western Terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_Palace_of_the_Legion_of_Honor (638 words)

	California Palace of the Legion of Honor
		Built to commemorate the 3,600 Californian soldiers who died in World War I, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor is a beautiful Beaux-arts building housing a fine-art collection in San Francisco, California.
		From April of 1992 to November of 1995 the California Palace of the Legion of Honor underwent an extensive renovation intended to not only restore the building’s original interior appearance, but also to expand and improve its facilities, both structurally and architecturally, to meet the demands of the 21st century.
		The name is used both for the museum collection and foCalifornia Palace of the Legion of Honor (often abbreviated to simply Legion of Honor by locals) is a fine-art museum in San Francisco, California.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2578.html (729 words)

	Legion of Honor Building Replica in San Francisco
		This pavilion, in a sense, was the model of the present Legion of Honor building in San Francisco.
		To seismically strengthen the museum, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, during its seventy-first anniversary, underwent a major renovation between March 1992 and November 11, 1995
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1995, 2-5, paraphrased.
	www.napoleon-series.org /research/miscellaneous/c_legion.html (712 words)

	california palace of legion of honor (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA - find photos, descriptions, maps, and what's nearby.
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor 34th Avenue and Clement Street Phone: 863-3330 Hours: Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:00pm.
		The Florence Gould Theater at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue, San Francisco.
	www.buffysplace.org.cob-web.org:8888 /california-palace-of-legion.html (265 words)

	The Legion's Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		While it's officially the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, some drop the "California." Others call it the "Legion of Honor." Locals generally call it 'the Legion." Under any name it's a Francophile's treasure that, with its contents, almost makes up for the manners of Paris taxi drivers.
		The Legion, a wonderful representation of the Palais de la Legion d'Honneur in Paris, built to "honor the dead while serving the living" with the statue in the center of its columnar courtyard, opened up on Armistice Day, November 11, 1924.
		Happily, on my last visit to the Legion before the restoration I watched a tall, blond lady with expressive hands explaining the fine points of a 17th Century painting of John the Baptist to a typically multicultural audience of school children.
	www.finetravel.com /unitedstates/california/thelegion.htm (961 words)

	CA Palace of the Legion of Honor
		The Florence Gould Theater opened at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1924.
		The ceiling of the 333-seat jewel-box theater boasts an elaborate mural, The Apotheosis of the California Soldier, painted in 1924 by Spanish artist and decorator Julio Villa y Prades.
		Plenty of free parking is available in front and around the museum, on Legion of Honor Drive and on El Camino del Mar.
	www.omniconcerts.com /venueslegion.html (228 words)

	San Francisco Insider: An Insider's Guide to Visiting San Francisco
		Recently renovated, the Legion of Honor building is a reproduction of an 18th century French palace in a spectacular setting with views of the
		The building of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor is stunning: you enter through a magnificent courtyard, called the Court of Honor, which is dominated by an original cast of Rodin’s
		The Palace is filled with fine examples of European works of art from earlier periods as well.
	www.theinsider.com /SF/Museums/CAPalacelegion.htm (434 words)

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		California Palace of the Legion of Honor is a fine arts museum a representative collection of mainly European art.
		The Legion is most noted for its breathtaking setting in Lincoln Park with views over the Golden Gate Bridge.
		Legion of Honor Dr. at El Camino del Mar Drive Entrance at 34th Av.
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		The Legion was closed from April 1992 to November 1995 while it underwent an extensive seismic retrofit and renovation.
		From April of 1992 to November of 1995 the California Palace of the Legion of Honor underwent extensive renovation aimed at not only restoring the building’s original interior appearance, but also to expand and improve its facilities--both structurally and architecturally to meet the demands of the 21st century.
		As with many older buildings in Northern California--the Legion was opened in 1924--a seismic retrofit was foremost among the projects undertaken during this three-year period.
	www.thinker.org /legion/about/subpage.asp?subpagekey=63 (298 words)

	Arnold Genthe / California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California / 1927
		Arnold Genthe / California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California / 1927
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
		This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world.
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico36281-85845.html (291 words)

	California Palace of the Legion of Honor \| Museum/Attraction Review \| San Francisco \| Frommers.com
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor
		Designed as a memorial to California's World War I casualties, this neoclassical structure is an exact replica of the Legion of Honor Palace in Paris, right down to the inscription HONNEUR ET PATRIE above the portal.
		The Legion of Honor reopened in late 1995, after a 2-year, $35-million renovation and seismic upgrading.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/sanfrancisco/A25173.html (268 words)

	Tale of Two Museums: SF's Legion of Honor and de Young
		The Legion of Honor is a beautiful facility, but the space that they use for special shows is relatively small for such a popular artist.
		As we were leaving the Legion of Honor, we realized that our paid admission also allowed us entry to the de Young Museum and the Asian Art Museum, both in Golden Gate Park.
		Please visit the Legion of Honor or the de Young Museum web site for more information.
	www.artagogo.com /reviews/famsf/famsf.htm (1171 words)

	Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - Absolutearts.com
		Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - Absolutearts.com
		The Legion of Honor celebrates the 80th birthday of American figurative painter and quintessential California artist Wayne Thiebaud with his first major retrospective in nearly two decades.
		Thiebauds formal art training was undertaken under the GI Bill at San Jose State College and the California State College in Sacramento.
	www.absolutearts.com /cgi-bin/news/elaborate.cgi?find=1655 (474 words)

	Poster 165 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		(#165) CALIFORNIA PALACE of the LEGION of HONOR: Edition of 2641 of which 125 copies are signed 1-125, 26 copies are signed A-Z as artist's proofs; 2 are signed as dedication copies, and three sets are signed as progressives.
		Client: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Couric Payne, 1-415-750-3609; Robert Johnson, 1-415-750-3679, FAX 1-415-750-3680) 1-125: Dow & Frosini
		Diogenes the Cynic, son of Hicesias of Sinope, is a half-fabulous Greek philosopher who lived around 400 bc and died some seventy-five years later, execrated, feared, honored and revered.
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	Rearview Mirror 1.2
		The structure is composed of a central rotunda overlooking a landscaped lagoon.
		Today the Palace of Fine Arts is home to the Exploratorium, and stands a reminder of Maybeck's original vision for the design, a melancholic grandeur in the spirit of Piranesi and similar artists.
		Constructed by Alma de Bretteville Spreckels in the 1920's, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor takes its inspiration from the Palais de la Legion d'Honneur in Paris.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/Architecture/22339 (331 words)

	California Palace of the Legion of Honor - San Francisco - Reviews of California Palace of the Legion of Honor - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor is featured in the following goLists.
		Hike and explore Mother Nature's art, or tour the Palace of the Legion of Honor and marvel at the works of art by people from all over the world (ancient to modern).
		Historical background and an in-depth description of San Francisco's famed museum (with many names) the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
	www.tripadvisor.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Attraction_Review-g60713-d156333-Reviews-California_Palace_of_the_Legion_of_Honor-San_Francisco_California.html (910 words)

	California Historical Society \| Membership
		Members of the California Historical Society receive exciting benefits to encourage their exploration of history and art.
		California partners include the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Golden State Museum, Japanese American National Museum, Maritime Museum of Monterey, and San Diego Historical Society.
		In California, participating museums include the Asian Art Museum, COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Oakland Museum of California, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Jose Museum of Art, Skirball Cultural Center, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
	www.californiahistoricalsociety.org /membership/reciprocal.html (164 words)

	Seismic upgrade triggers underground addition. (California Palace of the Legion of Honor; San Francisco, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		(California Palace of the Legion of Honor; San Francisco, California)(includes related article on museum heating, ventilation and air conditioning system)
		The California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco reopened to the public last November following a three-year project that expanded the 72-year-old art museum and made it more resistant to earthquakes.
		The architect for the renovation/expansion was Edward Larrabee Barnes, in association with the San Francisco architectural firm of Mark Cavagnero Associates.
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	McCall Catering : Venues : California Palace of the Legion of Honor (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Inspired by the Palais de la Legion d'Honneur in Paris, the Beaux Arts Legion of Honor is one of San's Francisco's most beautiful buildings in one of its most stunning settings.
		Spectacular views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the lights of the city compete for attention with European paintings, decorative art and a collection of Rodin sculptures that includes the Thinker.
		The courtyard can also be tented for dinners of up to 600 guests and receptions of up to 1,000 guests.
	www.danmccall.com.cob-web.org:8888 /venues/legion_of_honor.php (126 words)

	CNN - California museum makes virtual art a reality - Oct. 3, 1996
		That's how the California Palace of the Legion of Honor managed to resolve one of its most pressing challenges: not enough space and too much art work.
		Strolling through the museum basement, Bob Futernick of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, illustrates the museum's vast storage capacity.
		All of it is available at one address: www.thinker.org.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/9610/03/online.muse (537 words)

	Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
		Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
		MUNI service via 38 Geary, 1 California, 2 Clement and walk, or transfer via 18 line.
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	Memory and Media
		First stop: Palace of the Legion of Honor, at "lands end" near the Golden Gate Bridge.
		Constructed on a remote site known as Land's End--one of the most beautiful settings imaginable for any museum--the California Palace of the Legion of Honor was completed in 1924, and on Armistice Day of that year its doors opened to the public.
		In keeping with the wishes of the donors, to "honor the dead while serving the living," it was accepted by the city of San Francisco as a museum of fine arts dedicated to the memory of the 3,600 California men who had lost their lives on the battlefields of
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	Scenic San Francisco -pictures of Twin Peaks,Alamo Square, Lincoln Park, Beaches photos
		China and Baker Beaches and The Palace of the Legion of Honor
		Lands End is also where you will find the Lincoln Park Golf Course and The Palace of The Legion of Honor Museum which was was founded by Alma de Bretteville Spreckels and her husband, sugar baron Adolph B. Spreckels, in the early 1920s and has recently undergone a major renovation and expansion.
		Visit the California Palace of The Legion of Honor Museum with San Francisco CityPass.
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	California Palace of the Legion of Honor Concert Tickets, Schedule, Information (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor Concert Tickets, Schedule, Information (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)
		There are currently no events available at California Palace of the Legion of Honor
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	Black Is Beautiful
		"Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance" is an exhilarating exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, and rare film and jazz recordings on display at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor through March 8.
		San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is acting as honorary chair of the committee, and the committee’s four co-chairs are all trustees of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
		Through March 4 the Legion of Honor will remain open every Wednesday until 8:45 p.m., and Harlem in its heyday will come to life with the presentation of films, music and theatrical entertainment.
	www.ccsf.edu /Events_Pubs/Guardsman/s980213/ae03.htm (596 words)

	Gottfried Helnwein \| NEWS \| News Update \| SAN FRANCISCO - THE CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONORSan Francisco ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		SAN FRANCISCO - THE CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR
		An urban oasis — The California Palace of the Legion of Honor is San Francisco's most seductively situated museum
		— The California Palace of the Legion of Honor is San Francisco's most seductively situated museum, located on striking oceanfront landscape at Land's End in Lincoln Park in the northwest corner of the city.
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	California Palace of the Legion of Honor (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor is located
		The California Palace of the Legion of Honor was completed in 1924, and on Armistice Day of that year its doors opened to the public and dedication was made to those lost during the war.
	www.jssgallery.org.cob-web.org:8888 /Resources/Photos/Places/USA/California/Ca_Legion_of_Honor.html (184 words)

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