Spreckels Temple of Music
Attraction · Golden Gate Park, California
The bandshell at the west end of the Music Concourse, a masonry and concrete structure clad on the exterior with Colusa sandstone, consisting of a central half-dome bandshell with two flanking colonnades of eight pairs of Ionic columns. Its spandrels are recorded in the city's Civic Art Collection as the work of Robert Ingersoll Aitken, in cast concrete.
History
Built in 1900 with funds donated by the sugar magnate Claus Spreckels and designed by the Reid Brothers, architects. It was damaged in 1906 and again in 1989, and an extensive restoration and seismic upgrade was completed in 1994.
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