The tiered roofs and bright red paint of the five-tiered wooden pagoda installed in the Japanese Tea Garden at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park stand out against the site’s lush, zen-informed landscape complete with bonsai trees, azalea draped waterfalls, and a hedge modeled after the likes of Mount Fuji. The tower was first erected as the Palace of Food Products during the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and, somewhat miraculously, has survived over a century, recently emerging from a two-year-long restoration effort that involved replacing the roof shingles on all five levels, repainting its red exterior, and again activating its long-silenced bells.
The pagoda was
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