A Photography Project
On Dec 6, 2024, San Diego city dignitaries, staff and members of the local community gathered in Balboa Park to announce the reopening of the Botanical Building after a $26.5M renovation project that restored it to its original 1915 state.
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On May 6, 1856, Thomas Whaley began construction on a new home in what is now the Old Town area of San Diego and proclaimed “My new house, when completed, will be the handsomest, most comfortable and convenient place in town or within 150 miles of here.”
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Congregation Beth Israel was established in San Diego in 1861. In 1889, they built their first synagogue, Temple Beth Israel, at Second Avenue and Beech Street. It was moved to Heritage Park in the late 1970s and restored by 1988.
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Originally only half an acre, Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego was proclaimed a national monument in 1913 by President Woodrow Wilson. Today, expanded to about 144 acres, it is under the care of the National Park Service.
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Full title to the Mission Beach Amusement Center, built by John Spreckels in 1925, was given to the City of San Diego in 1939. The name was changed to Belmont Park in 1954 when the City negotiated a twenty-year lease with Jack Ray.
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The San Diego County Administration Center is sited on 16.7 acres of reclaimed tidelands of San Diego’s bayfront. Nicknamed the Jewel on the Bay, the main 4-story building with central 10-story tower has 3-story wings on each side.
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The Kensington area, San Diego’s best-known Spanish Colonial neighborhood, was originally part of Rancho de la Mission San Diego Alcala. A parcel of the Rancho became the property of the Kensington Park Land Company on April 8, 1910.
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