<Tr> <Th> Public transit access </Th> <Td> San Francisco Municipal Railway </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> http://legionofhonor.famsf.org/ </Td> </Tr> <P> The Legion of Honor (formerly known as The California Palace of the Legion of Honor) is a part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). The name is used both for the museum collection and for the building in which it is housed . Max Hollein currently serves as its Director and CEO . </P> <P> The Legion of Honor was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and thoroughbred racehorse owner / breeder Adolph B. Spreckels . The building is a full - scale replica, by George Applegarth and H. Guillaume, of the French Pavilion at the 1915 Panama--Pacific International Exposition, which in turn was a three - quarter - scale version of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur also known as the Hôtel de Salm in Paris, by Pierre Rousseau (1782). At the close of the exposition, which was located just a few miles away, the French government granted Spreckels permission to construct a permanent replica of the French Pavilion, but World War I delayed the groundbreaking until 1921 . </P>

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