Windmill Sails Soar
San Francisco’s oceanfront has a dramatic new attraction
“I swear this wasn’t here a week ago,” said one gawking passersby on Monday.
It wasn’t. Last week the copper dome was placed on the windmill, part of $6 million restoration project (of private and public monies) that has been more than a decade in the making after the original 1905 windmill fell into ruin from the elements and beetles.
Now the sails have been installed – considered the longest in the world - revealing more fully for the first time the structure’s dramatic comeback from oblivion. On Monday afternoon a steady stream of dazzled park visitors paused to stare and take pictures.
The Murphy Windmill, on the park’s south end, is one of two along the park’s oceanfront. The other, the Dutch Windmill originally constructed in 1902, is on the north end. At one time they both supplied water to the park.
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