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Balboa Park, California Tower, Balboa Park, El Prado Area, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

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Balboa Park, California Tower, Balboa Park, El Prado Area, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

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Summary

Significance: One of the most outstanding examples of Spanish Baroque reproduction in North America. The Tower was designed in the Spanish Chereguesque style to express the Spanish heritage of California by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue of New York.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-209
Survey number: HABS CA-1963-A
Building/structure dates: 1914 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: after. 1940- before. 1950 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1966 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 77000331

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Date

1963
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor
Winslow, Carlton Monroe,
PanamaCalifornia Exposition
Nordhoff, Walter
Lanelli, Alfonso
Museum of Man
Panama California Exposition
Rand, Marvin, photographer
Hamill, Samuel W, historian
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Location

Azure Vista32.71574, -117.16108
Google Map of 32.715738, -117.1610838
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Source

Museo Nacional del Prado
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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