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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
New Entrance Str\ict\ires, Masonic Cemetery, San Francisco. 
The imposing entrance to the Masonic Cemetery in 
San Mateo County, Cal., a short distance from San 
Francisco, was recently completed at a cost of about 
$50,000. The Wilson-Lyon Construction Company, of 
San Francisco, were the contractors, and T. Paterson 
Ross, architect, of San Francisco, has had personal 
supervision of the construction. 
The structure is of California granite, from the 
quarry of the Wilson-Lyon Co., near Raymond, Ma- 
dera County, 165 miles from San Francisco. The 
setting of the granite work occupied over two months, 
and was very successfully performed. 
The entire building is constructed of this white gran- 
ite, with Spanish tile roof, with considerable orna- 
mentation. The total height of the tower is 55 feet 
and the arch 18 feet. The full width of the building is 
120 feet. 
The chapel (shown at the left in the photograph) 
has an open timber roof with oak finish, with marble 
columns at the chancel. 
At the end of the chapel, behind the chancel, is the 
receiving vault, connecting underground, with 100 or 
more catacombs, all marble lined, and closed by doors 
with heavy bronze hinges, and art glass effects. 
The office building (at the right of the photograph) 
contains offices and waiting-rooms, mortuary conveni- 
ences, superintendent’s offices, etc. 
The structure is massive and imposing throughout, 
and one of the finest of the kind on the coast. 
The cemetery is under the management of the Ma- 
sonic Cemetery Association of San Francisco, and is 
one of the most attractive of the suburban burial 
grounds in the neighborhood of that city. It occupies 
a fine site outside of the city limits, and the new en- 
trance structures form a fitting addition to its other 
substantial improvements. It can be reached from- 
the heart of San Francisco in a half-hour’s ride on the 
electric cars. 
GROUP OF ENTRANCE BUILDINGS, MASONIC CEMETERY, SAN FRANCISCO. 
