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Updated: June 11, 2025
Palace of Education Main South Portal The Palace of Education forms the southwest unit of the main group of buildings and fronts on the Avenue of Palms and Administration Avenue. To W. B. Faville of San Francisco was entrusted the entire exterior wall which unites in one immense rectangle the eight palaces of the main group. A plain cornice, edged with tiles, binds the upper rim throughout.
Main doorway, Palace of Food Products, by Faville. Terra cotta effect on sides of door. Eagles above door, inspiration. Green lattice-work in doors. Administration Avenue West wall, magnificent; facing Palace of Fine Arts, broken by Aisle of Spring, and two large Roman half-domes in Palace of Food Products and Palace of Education.
Arches on sides, coupled Corinthian columns. Endeavor to make them more interesting than formal type of fluted columns. Four designs. They add to richness of court. Winged figures over arches, by Faville. Blue medallions above arches, Faville. Italian adaptation of Byzantine, Ship of State, the Bison, the Twins holding garlands representing abundance, the horn of plenty and cadeucus, and tree.
The simple dignity of the plain travertine wall surfaces is heightened by tile-covered cornices terminated by pavilions. A rich foreground of rhythmic planting of trees, shrubbery and flowers, emphasizes the unity of the eight palaces, the corporate purposes of which have been so successfully interpreted by Architects Bliss and Faville.
Aisle approaching the Palace of Fine Arts, leading from Court of Four Seasons, west to Administration Avenue, by Faville. Central portal, Spanish Renaissance, with twisted Byzantine columns. Globe above, symbolical of universal education. Main sculptural group: "Education," by Gustave Gerlach, Weehawken, New Jersey. Tree of knowledge in background. Left, kindergarten stage.
French ornamental vases, filled with flowers, by E. F. Champney. The wall, by Faville, with ornamental Spanish entrances, runs around main courts and palaces, making the walled city. Tiled roofs suggesting mission architecture, associated with early California missions, a style developed from the Spanish.
And how richly McLaren has planted the lagoon. He has given just the luxuriance that Maybeck wanted." The Western Wall We turned to get the effect of the western wall looking out on this magnificence. "Faville has done some of his finest work there. All over the Exposition he has expressed himself; but as his name is not connected with one of the great courts we don't hear it very much.
The architect who as entrusted with the designing of the wall and all the portals was W. B. Faville of Bliss and Faville. Certain architectural and sculptural units are repeated throughout the central group. Each building has a low central dome, seldom seen when one is close to any of the main buildings, but adding greatly to the decorative effect from a slight distance.
Green shell lamp posts, by McKim, Mead & White, architects. Called "Pink Alley" by workmen during construction. Palaces on sides of court: to the north, Mines; to the south, Varied Industries. Lamp standards against walls, dark bronze, smoked ivory globes, by Faville. Flat Ionic columns, called pilasters, against walls, by Faville. Court of the Ages
"Victory," on gables by Louis Ulrich, like the winged figure used by the Greeks, " Blessings on this house." Niches in wall, colored pink and blue. Heads of lions and elephants used as fountains, alternately by Faville. Panel over niches, figures with garland, by Faville. Festival Hall Festival Hall, Robert Farquhar, of Los Angeles, architect.
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