Pioneer Log Cabin
The history
A private meeting house built in 1911 for the Association of Pioneer Women of California, a group formed in 1900 to collect and preserve the memories of women who had reached California before 1854. After the 1906 earthquake destroyed their old Financial District meeting room, the group had unpeeled redwood logs floated down from Mendocino County and hired the Reid Brothers — architects of the Fairmont Hotel and the Cliff House — to design this rustic hall in the park. Dedicated October 28, 1911, used until the association disbanded in the 1970s, and still standing under the eucalyptus. Steps away stands the bronze Pioneer Mother Monument, sculpted by Charles Grafly, shown at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, then lost for 25 years in the ruins of the Palace of Fine Arts before the Native Daughters of the Golden West had it restored and installed here in 1940.
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