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Frederick Hilmer Rohr was born on 10 May 1896 in Hoboken, New Jersey, [1] where his father, Henry Gustav Rohr, had recently arrived from Germany. Looking to market his skills in working with sheet metal , Henry Rohr migrated westward with his family in 1898 and founded a metalworking shop in San Francisco .
Rohr subway cars manufactured for the Washington Metro. Rohr, Inc. is an aerospace manufacturing company based in Chula Vista, California, south of San Diego.It is a wholly owned unit of the Collins Aerospace division of Raytheon Technologies; [1] it was founded in 1940 by Frederick H. Rohr as Rohr Aircraft.
Several of the cottages in 2009. The House of Pacific Relations International Cottages is a complex of cottages in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.Built for the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition, they currently house 34 groups that "promote multicultural goodwill and understanding through educational and cultural programs". [1]
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.
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 West Park Neighborhood Historic District is a residential historic district surrounding West Park in Lake Forest, Illinois. The district includes 149 contributing buildings , most of which were built between 1907 and 1930, and West Park.
In 1982, the San Diego Historical Society moved its collections and research library to the Casa de Balboa building [5] in Balboa Park (maintaining the Serra Museum as an auxiliary museum and education center), and the Society changed its name to the San Diego History Center in 2010. [1] [6]
Bankers Hill (Park West) is located in the northwest part of Central San Diego. Bankers Hill (also known as Park West and formerly known as Florence Heights) is a long-established uptown neighborhood near Balboa Park in San Diego, California. The area acquired the name "Bankers Hill" because of its reputation as a home for the affluent. [1]