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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.
The Ford Building is a Streamline Moderne structure in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, that serves as the home of the San Diego Air & Space Museum. The building was built by the Ford Motor Company for the California Pacific International Exposition, which was held in 1935 and 1936. The Ford Motor Company built a total of five exposition ...
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 buildings and courtyard were designed by architect Bertram Goodhue.
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.
State Route 163 (SR 163), or the Cabrillo Freeway, is a state highway in San Diego, California.The 11.088-mile (17.844 km) stretch of the former US 395 freeway runs from downtown San Diego just south of an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5), extending north through historic Balboa Park and various neighborhoods of San Diego to an interchange with I-15 in the neighborhood of Miramar.
Built for the 1915–16 Panama–California Exposition, it remains one of the largest lath structures in the world. [1] Alfred D. Robinson (1867–1942), founder and president of the San Diego Floral Society, suggested the construction of a lath house as a feature of the Panama–California Exposition, which was to open in the City of San Diego ...
Balboa Park, San Francisco, a public park in San Francisco, California; Balboa Park station, a San Francisco train station; Anthony C. Beilenson Park, formerly Balboa Park, in the Lake Balboa neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; Balboa Park, in the Panchimalco district of San Salvador, El Salvador "Balboa Park", a song by Bruce Springsteen ...
It is located in Balboa Park and is housed in the former Ford Building, which is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places. [5] The museum was established by articles of incorporation on October 12, 1961, and opened to the public on February 15, 1963.