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Inside the San Diego History Center. Founded in 1928 by businessman and civic leader George W. Marston, [2] [3] the San Diego Historical Society was housed in the Mission style Junípero Serra Museum on Presidio Hill, the site of the earliest settlement in San Diego and California.
This is a list of museums in San Diego 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 ...
The 13-acre (5.3 ha) complex includes 13 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. Most of the structures were built for San Diego's Panama–California Exposition of 1915–16 and were refurbished and re-used for the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935–36.
William Templeton Johnson The Samuel I. Fox Building is an historic building located at 531 Broadway in San Diego 's Gaslamp Quarter , in the U.S. state of California . The Art Deco building was designed by William Templeton Johnson, [ 1 ] and completed in 1929.
USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer built by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. She is the 60th ship in her class. She is the 60th ship in her class. The ship is named for Vice Admiral William P. Lawrence (1930–2005), a naval aviator , fighter pilot, test pilot, Mercury astronaut finalist, Vietnam ...
The Casa de Balboa in 2004. The Casa de Balboa is a building in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. [1] The building was originally known as the Commerce and Industries Building, and later called the Canadian Building, the Palace of Better Housing, and the Electric Building.
Allosaurus at the San Diego Natural History Museum. The San Diego Natural History Museum grew out of the San Diego Society of Natural History, which was founded on October 9,1874. [2] [3] The Natural History Society was founded by George W. Barnes, Daniel Cleveland, Charles Coleman, E. W. Hendrick and O. N. Sanford. [2]
Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet FRCS FRS (16 July 1783 – 5 July 1867) was an English surgeon who became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen. In his mid-thirties, he published two books of his lectures which contained pre- Darwinian ideas on man's nature and, effectively, on evolution.