Talk:Strawberry Hill (San Francisco)

Question
how much of strawberry hill was man-made?

Chinese Pavilion
The Stow Lake page on the SF Recreation and Parks site calls the structure on Strawberry Hill in Stow Lake the "Golden Gate Pavilion", presented to the City in 1976. Many of the commercial references call it the "Chinese Pavilion". A couple of sites refer to the structure's having been a gift from Taipei dedicated in 1981. For example, "This structure was a gift from San Francisco's sister city, Taipei, and was dedicated in 1981". This lakeside viewing pavilion was dedicated April 13, 1981, a gift from the people of Taipei, San Francisco' sister city."

The page on Strawberry Hill on a commercial Golden Gate Park site refers to the structure as the "Golden Gate Pavilion". (Both the commercial and non-commercial Park pages provide several other details about Strawberry Hill which should be considered for inclusion in this article.)

The linked Wikipedia peace pagoda article does not appear to be congruent with the Stow Lake structure.

(The cached page also states "A landscaping masterpiece, it's very hard to believe that this lake was built from nothing. Finished in 1893, this quintessential feature of Golden Gate Park was a featured part of the 1894 Midwinter Fair. The lake itself forms a ring around Strawberry Hill, with three smaller islands in the lake for wildlife habitation. Two bridges connect the outside shore of the lake to Strawberry Hill. At the northwest corner of Stow Lake, boat rentals are available at the front entrance, bicycles and surreys at the back. 415-752-0347.".)Pegordon (talk) 22:10, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Natural or artificial
The article does not make it at all clear whether the hill is entirely natural, entirely artificial, or somewhere in between. It says it is in an artificial lake. I'm guessing the lake was built around an existing hill, but if so we should say so. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 00:12, 26 June 2023 (UTC)