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Makoto Hagiwara (萩原 眞, Hagiwara Makoto) (15 August 1854 – 12 September 1925) [1] [2] was a Japanese-born American landscape designer responsible for the maintenance and expansion of the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, from 1895 until his death in 1925. [3]
In 1870 the Park Commission solicited bids for a topographical survey which was awarded to Hall. After the successful completion of that task, he was appointed Golden Gate Park's first superintendent in 1871. [1] Hall devised a plan to improve the Park. The design included a Panhandle along with two main drives.
Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco, California, United States. It is the second-largest park in the city , containing 1,017 acres (412 ha), and the third-most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 24 million visitors annually.
An early effort to build a gate which started in 1958 [15] was suspended in 1961 after funds and materials ran short, [16] then abandoned in 1962. [17] The budget for both gateways (Chinatown and Barbary Coast) was initially $50,000 each, but the San Francisco Arts Commission killed the Barbary Coast proposal and reduced the budget to $35,000 ...
McLaren died January 12, 1943, in San Francisco, at the age of 96. [1] His body lay in state in the San Francisco City Hall Rotunda. Afterwards, the funeral cortege drove his casket through Golden Gate Park as a special honor. A small statue of McLaren was erected in the park in 1921, but within a year he hid it away. It was discovered after ...
City officials recorded more than 420,000 weekend visits to the park in 2023, making it the third-most-visited park in the city, after Golden Gate Park and the Marina.
Lee was appointed president of the San Francisco-Taipei Sister City Committee by Mayor Dianne Feinstein. As president, he began the effort to build the Golden Gate Pavilion in Golden Gate Park in 1981. [1] Lee ran for San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the 1980s and got 25,000 votes. [1]
San Gabriel’s Focus Plaza, known affectionately as Chinese Disneyland, has always lived up to its nickname. The gargantuan Chinese strip mall, anchored by a Chinese grocery store, offers two ...