The California Map Society met at the William Andrew Clark Memorial Library.  This beautiful and eclectic library is not on the UCLA campus and very few people know about it.    It was built by Clark in the 1920’s with money from a copper mine in Montana.  You can read the whole story of how it came to be on their web site.

Inside the rather plain building is some incredible art including this frieze of many classically posed nude men, lots of portraits and some magnificent books.

The frieze in the main lobby

A statue in front

The library is open to the public and the grounds are beautiful.  There is one magnificent Morton Bay Fig that rivals the big one in Santa Barbara.

The Morton Bay Fig where we had lunch

The library is open to the public and the grounds are beautiful.  There is one magnificent Morton Bay Fig that rivals the big one in Santa Barbara.  Tomorrow a henge discovery.