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Even in its incomplete and partially restored state, the Palace of Fine Arts that Maybeck designed for San Francisco's 1915 world's fair retains emotive power possessed by few other classically derived structures.  The key to that power is the architect's attempt to incorporate the fourth dimension of time into his buildings.  Recently restored for the third time in nearly a century, the Palace remains a warning to those whose imperial ambitions overreach their means of execution.

Dr. Gray A. Brechin is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.