PC-000-986A

Picture postcard of Mission Cliff Park, with building constructed for San Diego State Normal School

 

circa 1910

 

C. T. Photochrom (Curt Teich)

This hand-tinted picture postcard uses the same photograph as on PC-000-983A and PC-000-985. At the far end of the road away from what is described as the Mission Cliff Clark, centered in the deep background, is the San Diego Normal School, constructed from 1898-1910. This building, designed by Irving Gill (1870-1936), continued to be used as the school changed its name to the State Teachers' College, until the Montezuma Mesa location was occupied in 1931. Mission Cliff Park or Gardens, as it was known, was a creation of the San Diego Cable Railway Company, owned by John D. Spreckels (1853-1926). It was in existence from 1898 to 1942 and was the original destination of the pipe organ that became the center of the Spreckels Organ Pavillion.

San Diego Normal School; State Normal School; Normal schools; San Diego

 

California - San Diego - University Heights

 

 

MS-0008

English

I. L. Eno, San Diego, California

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

Yes

PC-000-986B; Raymond Starr's San Diego State University: a History in Word and Image, San Diego State University Press, 1995, pp. 21 and 31; PC-000-983, PC-000-985; Journal of San Diego History, Fall 1977, vol. 23, #4, B. Potter, "Mission Cliff Gardens"

[printed superimposed on photograph at upper left]
4509. General view of Mission Cliff Gardens, showing Normal School in distance, San Diego, California

 

Image

TIFF

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