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In partnering with the Legion of Honor to celebrate its 100th anniversary this year, Western Neighborhoods Project (WNP) has been researching the pivotal west side people who have shaped the venerable art museum at Lands End. Join Executive Director Nicole Meldahl as she shares highlights from this journey, including the discovery of a foundry where one of founder Alma de Bretteville Spreckels favorite sculptors, Arthur Putnam, cast figures in bronze near his Richmond District home and studio at 45th and Fulton. You’ll never look at the Museum quite the same way again.

Western Neighborhoods Project, founded in 1999, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that preserves, interprets, and shares the diverse history and culture of San Francisco’s west side. In support of this work, WNP launched the OpenSFHistory archive in 2014 to digitize and make accessible online thousands of historic San Francisco images that reach citywide. Learn more about what we do at  Western Neighborhoods Project.

Photo credits : The Legion of Honor shortly after opening, c. 1925. (Courtesy of a Private Collector and Western Neighborhoods Project / OpenSFHistory, wnp27.7813)