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The Casa del Prado comprises several reconstructed buildings that were initially built for the Panama–California Exposition in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. [1] Current tenants include the San Diego Botanical Garden Foundation, Civic Dance Arts, the San Diego Floral Association, the San Diego Civic Youth Ballet, the San Diego Junior ...
The Casa Del Prado Theater is the home of San Diego Junior Theatre, the country's oldest children's theatre program. The House of Pacific Relations International Cottages collected on El Prado offer free entertainment shows.
This is a schematic map of the Panama-California Exposition as it appeared in its second year, 1916. El Prado Complex corresponds to El Prado, the central avenue (gray), together with the buildings and plazas on either side of it. The blue area between it and the Cabrillo Bridge is the California Quadrangle, also listed on the National Register.
The Centro's circular building has offices, workrooms, studios, and a theater. [2] The performance space seats 150 people and has a 2,000 square foot art gallery. [3] The Centro is one of the first community-based Chicano cultural centers [5] and one of the largest in the Southwest. [2]
Just outside the California Quadrangle, on the west, is the first building visitors encounter as they cross the Cabrillo Bridge and enter El Prado Complex. This is the Administration Building. It was constructed in Balboa Park as the Panama–California Exposition Administration Building, completed in 1911 and designed by Irving Gill. Gill ...
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.
Plaza de Panama is a plaza in Balboa Park's El Prado Complex in San Diego, California. [1] [2] [3] View of Plaza de Panama from street, 2024. References
The House of Hospitality is a building in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.It was originally built for the Panama–California Exposition (1915) as the Foreign Arts Building.