The Palm is the strong feature of the court. On either side the portal
Italian cypresses have been used.

The lanterns in the corridors have been modeled from Roman lamps, and
are particularly beautiful in perspective.



The Court of Flowers
Dedicated to the Oriental Fairy Tales.



This exquisite court is by Geo. Kelham of San Francisco, who came from
New York just after the San Francisco fire to help in the reconstruction
of the city.

He is a man of pronounced ability and has just won in the competition
for plans for the new San Francisco Public Library.

The court is made one of great beauty by the collaborated work of Mr.
Geo. Kelham, the architect; Mr. Jules Guerin, the colorist, and Mr. John
McLaren of San Francisco, the chief of landscape gardening.

A loggia runs around the second story of the court, interrupted along
the face by niches which hold "The Oriental Flower Girl," designed by
Mr. A. Stirling Calder of New York, but worked out in the studio of the
Exposition.

Coupled columns, suggesting glacial ice, form a colonnade around three