Landmark 170
Grace Cathedral Close
1051 Taylor Street At California
Nob Hill
Built 1914
The Fountain of the Tortoises in Huntington Park at the top of Nob Hill is a copy of
La Fontana delle Tartarughe
in Piazza Mattei, Rome. The original was designed in 1581 by Giacomo della Porta and
sculpted by Taddeo Landini. Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to restore
the fountain in 1658, and as part of the restoration, Bernini added the tortoises.
In the early 20th Century, a Roamn company produced exact reproductions of the original.
William and Ethel Crocker purchased one for their estate in Hillsborough.
The Crocker children donated the fountain to San Francisco in 1954 for installation in Huntington Park
across the street from the site of the original Crocker mansion, now occupied by Grace Cathedral.
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