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4304 Park Boulevard (former Frank the Train Man), San Diego, 1943 Architectural Salvage, San Diego, 1930s Dalton Building , Gaslamp Quarter , San Diego, 1911 and 1930
The San Diego County Administration Center is a historic Beaux-Arts/Spanish Revival–style building in San Diego, California. It houses the offices of the government of San Diego County . Due to its notable architecture and location fronting San Diego Bay , it is nicknamed the Jewel on the Bay .
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.
George Marston was a department store owner and a prominent civic leader in San Diego. He was a founder of the San Diego Historical Society (now the San Diego History Center). [3] He may be best known for preserving the site of the San Diego Presidio, the first European settlement in present-day California, which had fallen into ruins. He ...
Cliff May (1903–1989) [1] was a building designer (he was not licensed as an architect until the last year of his life) practicing in California best known and remembered for developing the suburban Post-war "dream home" (California Ranch House), and the Mid-century Modern
A 2015 study by the City of San Diego concluded that the building meets several criteria for qualification for the San Diego Resources register: an example of community development and of an identifiable architectural style (Modern Contemporary architecture of 1955–1965). However the report stated that the building did not qualify because of ...
The tower has been described as "San Diego's Icon," the most photographed and best-known landmark in San Diego. [13] The State of California paid the $250,000 to develop the California Building and Tower for the 1915 Exposition. [11] Although California owned the building, it was turned over to the San Diego government in 1926. [8]
The site of the Green Dragon Colony, but not its buildings, was listed as a San Diego Historical Landmark in 1973 (HRBS 84). The only other designated site in La Jolla was the La Jolla Woman's Club. In 1986, four of the remaining cottages were designated as historic by the City of San Diego Historical Site Board.