the repair of terra cotta is a fairly straightforward process. it's been done several times in the city throughout the years, and over the years, myself and other companies have developed techniques to repair ter terra cotta spalls and nicks and stuff like that. so from a reassembly standpoint, reaassembling the fountain is not hard. we had a contractor give us an estimate that focuses strictly on reassembling the fountain. we don't know where the fountain would be rebuilt, whether it be in its own dedicated area, would it be on a hilly site or a flat site and things like that. there's also issues regarding whether or not it would be dry or wet, whether it would actually contain water and have spouts as the original fountain did. however, to get some idea of what something like that might cost, we also prepared a very outlined scope of work, mimicking where it was in pacific house for 50 years on the island. we had that commissioned by lee saller and associates, and they estimated that cost would be approximately $1 million, but there's many assu

give an update on conservation and preservation study that they've done on the pacific fountain terra cottat belongs to tida. >> good evening. i'm ann scheinman, and i'm happy to be one of the five to presentation you the update on the fountain. i'm going to be talking about the fountain sort of through history. i'm vice president and historian at the treasure island museum. where -- is -- can i use that? okay. visionaries who dreamed up the golden gate international exposition of 1939 and 40 chose irreleva inspiration as the theme. fair publicists called san francisco the metropolis of the pai pacific. this brochure lists some of the countries that were secured as participants. this building was pacific house, designed by architect william merchant. a group of citizens and an international organization called the institute of pacific relations didn't want the theme of pacific unity to be an empty slogan. pacific house provided substantive and educational cultures for the purpose of promoting world peace. maps for the central feature of pacific house. the enormous and beautiful blue oval of