RON HENGGELER

The backyard burial site of Oculus, the one-eyed hairless cat

The backyard’s statue of Saint Francis of Assisi, namesake of San Francisco

The Hoover Tower at Stanford University in Palo Alto

Jane Lathrop Stanford
By Léon-Joseph-Florentin Bonnat (France, 19th century)
Oil on canvas 1881
232 x 162 cm., 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 feet
Stanford Family Collection
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Leland Stanford Jr. on His Pony, Gypsy,
Palo Alto, May 1879
Photo taken by Eadweard Muybridge

Plaster Death Mask of Leland Stanford Jr. 1884
After Leland Jr.’s death from typhoid fever in 1884 in Florence, Italy, the boy’s grieving parents requested this last remembrance of their son, a death mask cast in plaster from a wax facial mold made at the time of the body’s preparation for burial.

Stuffed Owl
From the Stanford Collection at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Portrait of Leland Stanford Jr. with Skates 1880
By Thomas Kirby van Zandt
Oil on canvas 1881
Stanford Family Collection
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Tootsie 1889
By Andrew Putnam Hill 1853-1922
Oil on canvas
Stanford Family Collection
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior at the Age of Four c. 1872
By Willian Cogswell 1819-1903
Oil on canvas
Stanford Family Collection
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

A statue by Rodin in the Susan & John Diekman Gallery
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Slab Man 1974-1975
By Duane Hanson 1925-1996
Vinyl resin and Fiberglass, polychromed in oil
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Upper Kern River 1876
By William Keith 1838-1911
Oil on canvas
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

The Robert Mondavi Family Gallery
In the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Kitchen Piece 1890
By Richard LaBarre Goodwin
Oil on canvas
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

The Robert Mondavi Family Gallery
In the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Details of The Accident 1899
By Willem Geet
Oil on canvas
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

The Robert Mondavi Family Gallery
In the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Meier Family Galleria
In the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

The Robert Mondavi Family Gallery
In the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

The Susan & John Diekman Gallery
In the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

The Susan & John Diekman Gallery
In the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

The Susan & John Diekman Gallery
In the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Detail of The Gates of Hell
By Rodin
In the Rodin Sculpture Garden at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Detail of The Gates of Hell
By Rodin
In the Rodin Sculpture Garden at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Detail of The Gates of Hell
By Rodin
In the Rodin Sculpture Garden at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

The Hoover Tower at Stanford University in Palo Alto

The city of San Francisco as seen from the Hoover Tower Observation Platform
At Stanford University in Palo Alto

The Stanford Memorial Church as seen from the Hoover Tower Observation Platform
The church is located at the center of the Stanford University campus.
It was built by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland.
Designed by architect Charles A. Coolidge, a protégé of Henry Hobson Richardson, the church has been called "the University's architectural crown jewel".

A detail of the Hoover Tower viewed from the tower’s Observation Platform

A view of Stanford University campus from the Hoover Tower Observation Platform

A view of Stanford Jr. University campus from the Hoover Tower Observation Platform

Entrance to the Library of Stanford University

The Stanford Memorial Church
The church is located at the center of the Stanford University campus.

The Stanford Memorial Church
The church is located at the center of the Stanford University campus.

The Stanford Memorial Church
The church is located at the center of the Stanford University campus.

A typical view around the Stanford University campus

A road through Woodside, on the return trip to San Francisco, after a visit to Stanford University