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The theatre was built as a result of a donation from Howard F. Ahmanson Sr, the founder of H.F. Ahmanson & Co., an insurance and savings and loans company. It was named for his second wife, businesswoman and philanthropist Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson. [2] Inaugural Program 1967. Welton Becket & Associates was the architect.
The James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep United States Courthouse, also known simply as the Carter-Keep Courthouse, [1] [2] is a federal courthouse in San Diego, California.It is a sixteen-story facility on 2.6 acres (11,000 m 2) that includes courtrooms, judges chambers, offices and courtroom galleries of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, along with ...
The Los Angeles Music Center (officially the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. [1] Located in downtown Los Angeles, The Music Center is composed of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Roy & Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (REDCAT), and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Location of San Diego County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Diego County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Diego County, California, United States.
Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson, the company's founder, was born in Omaha, Nebraska on July 1, 1906. [1]Considered by his father to be a genius by the age of five, Ahmanson founded the H.F. Ahmanson company in 1927, before graduating from the University of Southern California. [2]
Several pieces of 1930s Works Progress Administration art, with San Diego themes, were installed after the 1994 renovation. These include a ceramic sculpture by T.J. Dixon and James Nelson, titled The Immigrants, and two paintings on the third-floor, San Diego Harbor, by an unknown artist and San Diego Mural, by Belle Baranceanu. [2]
The Pavilion has 3,156 seats spread over four tiers, with chandeliers, wide curving stairways and rich décor. [2] The auditorium's sections are the Orchestra (divided in Premiere Orchestra, Center Orchestra, Main Orchestra and Orchestra Ring), Circle (divided in Grand Circle and Founders Circle), Loge (divided in Front Loge and Rear Loge), as well as Balcony (divided in Front Balcony and Rear ...
In order to consolidate city and county government offices which were scattered across downtown San Diego, city planner John Nolen was engaged to plan a civic center. Voters rejected the first draft plan (1908) which would have placed the civic center downtown. In 1926 Nolen completed a plan which placed the civic center on newly dredged tidelands.