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Panama–California Exposition. The Panama–Pacific International Exposition was a world's fair held in San Francisco, California, United States, from February 20 to December 4, 1915. Its stated purpose was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, but it was widely seen in the city as an opportunity to showcase its recovery from the ...
The Marin County Civic Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in San Rafael, California, the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. Groundbreaking for the Civic Center Administration Building took place in 1960, after Wright's death and under the watch of Wright's protégé, Aaron Green; it was completed in 1962.
Panama–Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco) The Panama–California Exposition was a world exposition held in San Diego, California, between January 1, 1915, and January 1, 1917. The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first United States port of call for ships traveling ...
Marin Arts and Garden Center. The Marin Society of Artists ( MSA) is an arts nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization founded in 1927, and located at 1515 3rd Street in San Rafael, California. [1] [2] It is the first and the oldest art organization in Marin County. Formerly known as the Marin Art Association, and formerly part of the Marin Arts and ...
The Marin Art and Garden Center was founded in 1945 by women members of the Marin Conservation League. This project was led by the League's president, Caroline Sealy Livermore, who organized fundraising to obtain the $25,000 needed to buy the property. The site was the location for the Marin County Fair from 1947 to 1970.
150,000 (average) Area. 11 acres (45,000 m 2) Website. www .norcalrenfaire .com. The Northern California Renaissance Faire, owned by Play Faire Productions is a Renaissance faire in California located in Hollister about 90 miles southeast of San Francisco. The Renaissance Festival typically runs on weekends from mid-September to mid-October.
Marin County ( / məˈrɪn / ⓘ mə-RIN; Spanish: Condado de Marín) is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 262,231. [ 3] Its county seat and largest city is San Rafael. [ 4]
As of 2019, San Francisco County was the 7th highest-income county in the United States (among 3,142), with a per capita personal income of $139,405. [217] Marin County, directly to the north over the Golden Gate Bridge, and San Mateo County, directly to the south on the Peninsula, were the 6th and 9th highest-income counties respectively.