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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego County, CA
• Other Title: Foreign Liberal Arts Building
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Winslow, Carleton Monroe
     Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor
     Requa, Richard S
     San Diego Department of Parks & Recreation
     Panama California Exposition
     California-Pacific International Exposition
     Allen, Frank Phillip
     Schmohl, H R
     U.S. Navy Training Camp
     Gilbert, Gertrude
     Trepte, Walter
     Civic Auditorium Society
     Bodmer, H Louis
     Hamill, Sam
     Taylor, Don
     Ruocco, Lloyd
     Larrinaga, Juan B
     McClinton, Katherine Morrison, Kahle
     VaSchaik, Wynn L
     Perry, W Allen
     Evenson, F F
     Davis, H O
     Olesen, Otto K
     Hord, Donna
     Hanks, Rose
     Casa del Rey Moro Garden
     Gladding McBean
     Parrish, Maxfield
     Navy Nurses' Barracks
     Johnson, William Templeton
     Hatch, George
     Hernandez-Loera, Daniel , field team
     Slocum, Bill , field team
     Mead, Phillip , field team
     Massoudnia, Susan , field team
     Adamske, Emily , field team
     Donaldson, Milford Wayne , project manager
     Marshall, David , project manager
     Maul, David , transmitter
     Chandler, William S , historian
     Gohlich, Edward , photographer
     Engel, Betty , historian
     Boldt, Eric , historian
     Mead, Phillip , delineator
     Massoudnia, Susan , delineator
     Adamske, Emily , delineator
     Rickling, Brian S , delineator
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Photo(s): 42
  Measured Drawing(s): 18
  Data Page(s): 16
  Photo Caption Page(s): 6
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: 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)
  
• Call Number: HABS CAL,37-SANDI,16D-
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1914 as an open plan exhibit hall for the Panama California Exposition of 1915-1916, and named the Foreign Liberal Arts Building. Designed by Carleton Monroe Winslow, F.A.I.A., under the supervision of Exposition Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, F.A.I.A., the exterior shell of the building recalls the Churrigueresque style of Spanish Colonial architecture of the late 17th Century. The building was significantly remodeled by architect Richard S. Requa, A.I.A. in 1933-1936, and was used as the ceremonial "House of Hospitality" for receiving dignitaries and visitors to the California-Pacific International Exposition in 1935-1936. Requa retained the original 1914 structural system and facades, and inserted two floors of office and public rooms and an open "Mexican Colonial" central courtyard into the 1914 shell. The remodeled structure included a civic auditorium and a public restaurant with a new terraced garden on the south side of the building.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N269
  • Survey number: HABS CA-1963-D
  • Building/structure dates: 1913- 1914 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1933- 1936 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1995 Demolished
  • Building/structure dates: 1922 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1943-1947 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1948 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1954-1956 Subsequent Work
  • National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 77000331
• Subjects:
  • exhibition buildings
  • T-plan buildings
  • exhibitions
  • restoration (process)
  • military education
  • visitors' centers
  • theaters
  • restaurants
  • Churrigueresque architectural elements
  • stucco
  • mezzanines
  • Spanish Colonial Revival architectural elements
  • towers
  • courtyards
  • loggias
  • polychromy
  • terraces
  • gardens
  • pergolas
  • wrought ironwork
  • proscenium arches
  • frontispieces
  • capitals (columns)
  • wells
  • coats of arms
  • Mexican Colonial architectural elements
  • exterior lighting
• Place:
  • California -- San Diego County -- San Diego
• Latitude/Longitude: 32.71528, -117.15639
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

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• Rights Advisory: 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
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HABS CAL,37-SANDI,16D-
• Medium: Photo(s): 42
  Measured Drawing(s): 18
  Data Page(s): 16
  Photo Caption Page(s): 6

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• Call Number: HABS CAL,37-SANDI,16D-
• Medium: Photo(s): 42
  Measured Drawing(s): 18
  Data Page(s): 16
  Photo Caption Page(s): 6

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