Hank Donat and Bella Farrow. |
At California
and Taylor Streets, Huntington Park is a charming, distinctly cosmopolitan
public park at the top of Nob Hill on the site of a once great mansion. Features
here include a tree lined court, fountains, playground, and formal lawns.
At the front of the park, where parlors were located in Crocker's palace,
is the beautiful bronze Dancing Sprites. The
centerpiece of the park is a copy of Landini's 1585 Fountain
of the Tortoises. The original is at the
Piazza Mattei in Rome. Bella Farrow - the socialite and philanthropist
whose Nob Hill Foundation oversaw a recent restoration of the Huntington
Park fountain - says plainly, "Ours is better." Mister SF agrees. For weary
grown-ups, no visit to Huntington Park is complete without a ride on the
children's
swings. |
