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Spreckels Temple of Music (GG Park Bandshell)
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About the Spreckels Temple of Music (GG Park Bandshell) [See on Map]
Located in Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse and built in 1900, this beloved band shell featuring two colonnades of impressive ionic columns is a rare surviving example of pre-1906 Earthquake architecture. A redevelopment of an earlier structure built for the 1894 Mid-Winter Fair, over the years the band shell provided a venue for diverse artists from Pavarotti to the Grateful Dead. Deemed unfit for public assembly in 2005, the Spreckels Temple received a Partners in Preservation grant to restore its exterior stone, roof, and rosettes and to...
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