presidia

Updated: May 16, 2025

Some of his best specimens of Italian cypress he secured in Santa Barbara, in Monterey and in San Jose. He also drew largely on Golden Gate Park and on the Presidio. In all he used about thirty thousand trees, more than two-thirds eucalyptus and acacia. Preparing the Landscape Two years before the Exposition was to open McLaren built six greenhouses in the Presidia and a huge lath house.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

The expense of filling in the small ponds there would be slight in comparison with the expense of leveling the ground at the park. A few weeks later Harbor View and the Presidia was definitely decided on as the site, and the only site.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth