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Beach Chalet, Great Highway
Golden Gate Park's 'Villa by the Sea', the Beach Chalet was built in 1925 by one of the Bay Area's premiere architects, Willis Polk. The two-story Spanish Colonial Revival faces the Pacific Ocean and orginally provided beach goers with a public lounge, changing rooms and a 200-seat municipally-run restaurant. The lower level of the Chalet features WPA-era life-sized frescoed murals of prominent local artists and writers, wall and floor mosaics, and a three-dimensional carved magnolia wood staircase featuring an octopus entwined on the balustrade.

Restored in 1996, the Beach Chalet's current micro-brewery and restaurant still presents diners views of the waves crashing onto Ocean Beach. A second restaurant, the glass atrium Park Chalet was added behind the Beach Chalet and provides a quiet garden setting just steps from the Queen Wilhelmina Windmill and the Dutch Tulip Garden.


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