Morse, Thomas Bush and Alonzo Horton select the land north of downtown. Two years later, San Diego becomes the first city west of the Mississippi to set aside land for an urban park. This 1, acre tract becomes the site for City Park, now Balboa Park. Two reservoirs are constructed on mesas bordering canyon with a total capacity of , gallons.
In exchange she agrees to supply trees and plants for the park and other city projects. The Administration Building is the first to go up, completed in March Franklin D. Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy accompanies G. Aubrey Davidson and Mayor Charles F. The carnival-like atmosphere is aimed at travelers arriving through the newly opened Panama Canal. Are you a history buff? Love seeing the way things were? Balboa Park recently celebrated its th birthday, and times have changed since the Panama-California Exposition that put the Park on the map.
Follow the stops below to take a journey back in time to Balboa Park in Stop to take in this lovely view of Balboa Park's Botanical Building. During the Exposition, the building displayed bamboo, banana trees, palms and more. The designers even hid bird cages in the flora, adding their chirping calls to the authentic outdoor atmosphere.
Compare your view of the Botanical Building to this photo taken from the same spot. What's changed? What's stayed the same? Can you find this spot in the Park? It's in front of the Botanical Building, facing the Lily Pond. Today, it's a popular place for selfies! This was a favorite place for pictures even in Do you think this well-dressed woman would have snapped a selfie here if she could have?
The history of Balboa Park and San Diego are inseparable because the location of the Park is in the middle of the city. For hundreds of years this area was a waste of canyons and mesas with chaparral and native plants, mostly unoccupied. On May 13th, the U. The population at this time was in San Diego. It was on February 4th, that San Diego became the first city west of the Mississippi to set aside land for an urban Park. A acre tract became the site for the City Park, which is now known as Balboa Park.
The size of Central Park in New York is acres. At that time the population of San Diego grew to 2, In it increased to 35,, The real state boom ended in , and the population dropped back to 16, In the world-famous Hotel del Coronado opened. The entrepreneurs Elisha Babcock and H. Story were responsible for that project. The City Park or later Balboa Park remained mostly unchanged for over 20 years. It was Kate Sessions, a horticulturist who transformed this arid rocky expanse of chaparral and mulefalt shrubs into a botanical masterpiece.
In , Sessions received 30 acres of land for a private nursery, in return for which she would plant trees a year in the park and trees and other plants elsewhere in the city. In the Wall Street panic lead to a lengthy depression, which affected San Diego also. In the construction of the Panama Canal was authorized in Congress. In after the big earthquake in San Francisco John D. Spreckels leaves San Francisco and moved permanently to San Diego. In there was a contest to rename City Park.
Balboa Park was the winning entry. The population of San Diego reached 39, On October 15, the U. Grand Hotel opens in downtown on the site of the former Horton House. In groundbreaking ceremonies and construction began with a military mass in a Balboa Park Canyon to hold an Exposition for the opening of the Panama Canal. On August 23, the Spreckels Theater opened with seats.
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