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Aerial view from west in 1932. The original stadium was built in 1914 as part of the 1915 Panama–California Exposition, also in Balboa Park, with a capacity of 15,000.A horseshoe design that opened to the south, it was designed by the Quayle Brothers architectural firm and originally called City Stadium.
Boxer Stadium (also known as Matthew J. Boxer Stadium) is a soccer stadium in San Francisco, California.Located in Balboa Park, the stadium has a capacity of 3,500.It is owned and operated by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department and is the only public soccer-specific stadium in San Francisco. [2]
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 Balboa Complex, to include the main Naval Hospital, treated approximately 172,000 patients with a maximum occupancy of 12,000 in December, 1944. In 1946 the Balboa Park grounds and buildings were returned to the city. [5] During the Vietnam War-era, the complex was the largest military hospital in the world. [6]
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]
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 ...
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San Diego's Balboa Park. Arcadia Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7385-4754-1; McClain, Molly. "A Room of Their Own: The Contribution of Women to the Panama-California Exposition, 1915." The Journal of San Diego History, 61, no. 1 (Winter 2015). The Official Guide Book of the Panama California Exposition San Diego 1915.