The Balboa Park Club - San Diego, CA
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N 32° 43.721 W 117° 09.207
11S E 485622 N 3621220
One of many historical markers at Balboa Park in San Diego, California.
Waymark Code: WM16YN9
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/31/2022
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The plaque says, "The Balboa Park Club was designed as the New Mexico State Building by Colorado architect Isaac Hamon Rapp for the 1915 Panam California Exposition. Inspired by the 300-year-old San Esteban del Rey mission church at Acoma Pueblo, it featured a Pueblo Revival style design. New Mexico sold the building to the City of San Diego for $3,200 when the Exposition ended.
San Diego architect Richard Requa remodeled the building as the Palace of Education for the 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition. The central patio was roofed over and a large exhibit hall added. The Works Progress Administration commissioned an interior fountain sculpture. The Four Cornerstones of American Democracy, by Frederick Schweigand. The WPA also commissioned a Belle Baranceanu Mural "The Progress of Man”. The Exposition Cactus Garden suggested by horticulturist Kate Sessions, and planted behind the building, can still be seen. In 1949 the city made further changes, renamed the building the Balboa Park Club, and designed it for a teen club and for social events.
WWI: Following the U.S. entry into the war, the Marine Corps used the north wing for officer barracks and the Santa Fe Room for Instruction.
WWII: The building was converted into a temporary annex to the naval hospital with a dispensary and mess hall. The Santa Fe Room became the "Camp Kidd Officers' Club,” honoring Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, the first U.S. Navy flag officer killed in action during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor."
Group that erected the marker: Friends of Balboa Park
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
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San Diego, CA, USA
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