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  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection

House of Hospitality and War Memorial Building

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Night scene, House of Hospitality and War Memorial Building, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Night scene of the House of Hospitality on the left and the War Memorial Building on the right in San Diego's Balboa Park. The House of Hospitality was originally designed by architect Carleton M. Winslow (1910-1946) and constructed for the Panama-California International Exposition of 1915-1916 as the Foreign Arts Building (also known as the Foreign Liberal Arts Building). It was demolished and rebuilt in the same Spanish-Renaissance style, and later used as the Balboa Park Visitors Center. The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars Building (sometimes known as the War Memorial Building) was originally designed as the "Electricity Building" for the 1915 Exposition, but had become the Home Economy Building by opening. It was also known as the Pan-Pacfic Building and was known as the Cafe of the World during the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935. This building was demolished in 1963 to make way for the Timken Museum that opened in 1965.
Balboa Park; House of Hospitality; War Memorial Building; Home Economy Building; Electricity Building; Balboa Park Visitors Center; Carleton M. Winslow, Sr.; Foreign Arts Building; Foreign Liberal Arts Building; San Diego
California - San Diego - Balboa Park
  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
Longshaw Card Company, Los Angeles, CA
Postcard
3.5 inches x 5.5 inches
No
  • San Diego State University Library and Information Access, Special Collections and University Archives
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