Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — Studio in a Tree Trunk. [ARTICLE]

Studio in a Tree Trunk.

In Golden Gate park, in San Francisco, Cal., is the trunk of a gigantic tree, which is being put into the very odd use of a sculptor’s studio. It offers plenty of room for stands, models, mounds of clay, and spectators, for the immense tree butt has been hollowed out till it forms a room a little over thirty-five feet across. The outside diameter of the trunk is thirty-eight feet nine inches. When standing in its native glory the tree was over 325 feet high. Its trunk is now a relic of the big Midwinter fair, held in Golden Gate park in 1893.