Legion of Honor as a replica of a French pavilion with Rodin casts

The Legion of Honor museum, located at 100 34th Avenue, opened in 1924 as a gift from Alma de Bretteville Spreckels and was modeled on the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur in Paris, a fact documented in museum histories. Its collections include European paintings, ancient art, and notable sculptures by Auguste Rodin, including a cast of The Thinker, making the museum a focal point of San Francisco's fine-arts heritage. The building and its park setting in Lincoln Park are regularly referenced in accounts of the city's cultural institutions.