Runnymede Sculpture Farm is a private

sculpture park A sculpture garden or sculpture park is an outdoor garden or park which includes the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings. A sculpture garden may be private, owned by a ...

Woodside, California Woodside is a incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula. It has a council–manager system of government. The population of the town was 5,309 at the 2020 census. The town's population ha ...

. It displays approximately 140 pieces of contemporary sculpture on 120 acres. The land was purchased in 1930 by Alma Spreckels Rosekrans, the daughter of

California Palace of the Legion of Honor The Legion of Honor, formally known as the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is an art museum located in San Francisco, on the West Side of the city. Located in Lincoln Park, the Legion of Honor is a component of the Fine Arts Museum ...

founders

Adolph B. Spreckels Adolph Bernard Spreckels (January 5, 1857 – June 28, 1924) was a California businessman who ran the Spreckels Sugar Company and who donated the California Palace of the Legion of Honor art museum to the city of San Francisco in 1924. His wife, ...

and

Alma de Bretteville Spreckels Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (March 24, 1881 – August 7, 1968) was a wealthy socialite and philanthropist in San Francisco, California. She was known both as "Big Alma" (she was tall) and "The Great Grandmother of San Francisco". Among her ma ...

. Rosekrans purchased the farm for her horses and named it after her father's prized stallion, Runnymede, sire of Kentucky Derby winner

Morvich Morvich (April 23, 1919 – January 26, 1946) was an American Thoroughbred who was the first California, California-bred horse racing, racehorse to win the Kentucky Derby. Bred by sugar magnate Adolph B. Spreckels at his Napa, California, Napa ...

.Zinko, Carolyne, "John Rosekrans, toy executive, Spreckels heir", ''San Francisco Examiner'', Oct. 30, 2001
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Runnymede Farm
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