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Balboa Park is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) historic urban cultural park in San Diego, California. [3] [4] Placed in reserve in 1835, the park's site is one of the oldest in the United States dedicated to public recreational use.
El Prado Complex is a historic district in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.The 13-acre (5.3 ha) complex includes 13 contributing buildings and one contributing structure.
The idea for an exposition came from Frank Drugan, a newcomer to San Diego, California, who arrived in 1933. He recognized the potential of the buildings in Balboa Park left over from the 1915–16 exposition; the buildings had been designed to be temporary, but had been refurbished and upgraded several times and were available for use.
The California Quadrangle, California Building, and California Tower are historic structures located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.They were built for the 1915–16 Panama–California Exposition and served as the grand entry to the event. [3]
The U.S. Navy borrowed Balboa Park during World War II, and no organ concerts were played during 1942–1948. [8] During the 1970s and 1980s, the pavilion fell into disuse and risked being demolished. Around $1.1 million were raised for repairs by the early 1980s from the city and a local nonprofit. [8]
Bea Evenson Fountain is an outdoor fountain in San Diego's Balboa Park, in the U.S. state of California. [1] [2] [3] [4]Designed by noted modernist architect Homer Delawie, [5] the fountain honors Bea Evenson (1900–1981), the founding president of the park's Committee of 100, organized in the late 1960s to save or reconstruct the buildings of the Panama–California Exposition of 1915.