PC-000-224

Looking West along El Prado from Home Economy Building to California Tower, Balboa Park

 

 

 

 

This photograph looks west along El Prado street, with the Home Economy Building on the right in the vertical center, where the Timken Museum of Art stands in 2013. Demolished to make way for the Museum in 1963, this building was designed by Carleton Monroe Winslow (1876-1946) and constructed for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915. It was also known as the Pan-Pacific Building, the Cafe of the World, and the American Legion Building. Known as the Avenue of Palaces (Avenida de Palacios) during the California-Pacific Exposition of 1935, El Prado is seen to open up on the left into the Plaza de Panama (later Plaza del Pacifico). On the northwest corner of the Plaza and occupying the area from just below the California Tower to immediately across from the Home Economy Building is the Science and Education Building (Building No. 4), which became the Palace of Photography (1935), Medical Arts Building (1936), then the Veterans of Foreign Wars Building before it was demolished in the 1960s. On the southeast corner of the Plaza is the House of Hospitality (far left at around vertical center), built for the 1915 Exposition as the Foreign Arts Building (or Foreign Liberal Arts Building), and reconstructed in 1997.

Balboa Park; El Prado street; Home Economy Building; Plaza de Panama; Plaza del Pacifico; Carleton Monroe Winslow; Pan-Pacific Building; Cafe of the World; American Legion Building; Avenue of Palaces; Avenida de Palacio; Plaza de Panama; Plaza del Pacifico; California Tower; Science and Education Building; Building No. 4; Palace of Photography; Medical Arts Building; Veterans of Foreign Wars Building

 

California - San Diego - Balboa Park

 

 

MS-0008

English

 

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

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TIFF

19.39 MB