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The Green Dragon Colony was a group of unique rental cottages that attracted musicians and artists to the seaside community of La Jolla in San Diego, California, between 1895 and 1912. Established by German immigrant Anna Held Heinrich, the colony became a well-known tourist destination in Southern California .
Postcard, ca. 1900, showing Alligator Head at La Jolla Cove Sea Lions at Alligator Head, La Jolla Cove, 2019. In the mid-1880s, the anticipated arrival of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads led to a real estate boom along the Southern California Coast. La Jolla, a remote area best known for its natural scenery, was targeted by ...
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.
Children's Pool Beach (also known as Casa Beach) is a small sandy beach in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. Aerial view of the pool, May 2011, with over 200 seals on the beach. The Children's Pool earned its name after the construction of a concrete breakwater in 1931.
7607 La Jolla Blvd 2/15/1998 Designated elements include Scripps Hall (Irving Gill, 1910–11), Gilman Hall (Irving Gill and Louis Gill, 1916), St. Mary's Chapel (Carleton Winslow, 1916), The Tower (Carleton Winslow, 1930), Wheeler J. Bailey Library (Carleton Winslow, 1935), garden sall on Prospect St. and La Jolla Blvd. 357
La Jolla Cove, the staple of La Jolla, is the most popular tourist destination [57] in La Jolla, featuring many snorkelers, [58] swimmers, and wildlife (most notably the La Jolla seals). [ 59 ] [ 60 ] During some parts of the year, people will find the shallow ends of the beach filled with harmless leopard sharks , as they come closer to shore ...
The silvery, 12-foot-long (3.6-meter) oarfish was found last weekend by a group of snorkelers and kayakers in La Jolla Cove, north of downtown San Diego, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...
Red Rest Cottage, 1187 Coast Blvd, La Jolla. George J. Leovy (1858–1921), a New Orleans native and railroad lawyer, built the Red Rest as a summer house for his family. For several years, the family had camped in Scripps Park. The cottage was sold to Florence Sawyer, founder of the Reading Room, La Jolla's first library. She lived there for a ...