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The Old Scripps Building overlooks the Pacific coast near the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier on the campus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.It is set on a terrace about 15 feet (4.6 m) above the shore, and is a relatively nondescript concrete structure, two stories in height, measuring about 50 by 75 feet (15 m × 23 m), with the long axis oriented roughly east–west.
A view of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2011, taken from Birch Aquarium. The Old Scripps Building, designed by Irving Gill, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1982. [10] [43] Architect Barton Myers designed the current Scripps Building for the Institution of Oceanography in 1998.
List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks — within Orange County, California. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
The original Scripps marine biological laboratory, 1910. The aquarium was established in 1903 after the Marine Biological Association of San Diego was created to conduct marine research in the local waters of the Pacific Ocean (its name was later changed to Scripps Institution of Oceanography to honor supporters Ellen Browning Scripps and E.W. Scripps, part of the Scripps family of newspaper ...
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the nation's oldest oceanographic institutes, was founded in 1903 by William Emerson Ritter, chair of the zoology department at the University of California, Berkeley, with financial support from Scripps and her brother E. W. Scripps. At first the institution operated out of a boathouse in Coronado ...
This is a list of museums in Orange County, California, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Location of Orange County in California This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orange County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and ...
Several facilities in La Jolla, California, are named after the Scripps family. Scripps Institute may refer to: TSRI is The Scripps Research Institute, established in 1991 for medical and biological research; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a division of UC San Diego