Identifier: adolphsutro00holm (find matches)
Title: Adolph Sutro
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Holmes, Eugenia Kellogg, Mrs. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of San Francisco photo-engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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MUSEUM SUTRO BATHS
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Si w <pq o -J) H O i CO This staircase touches the very rim of the revel-ing waves. The foyer, on Point Lobos avenue, is in theGreek Doric cast of architecture, and conveysthose who favor driving, to a carriage way thatwinds among tall terraces, rough-surfaced shelvesand lichen-laced rocks, wrought by the warringwinds and tides. A distinctly noticeable feature of this stupendousestablishment is a stage, constructed for the per-formance of operas, dramas, acrobatic exhibitions,and the display of any talent or skill contributableto public entertainment. The seats, arranged in tiers, form an amphi-theatre, facing the ocean side of the structure, andare walled with glass of many colors. The most fantastic effects are caused by the filter-ing sun, the reaching surf, the arching sky, thecurving clouds, and those radiant mosaics. Whether the sunbeams are imprisoned and tem-pered, the glare of electricity softened, the great,green billows are broken in snowy embroideryupon the amber sands,

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