by Balboa Park Conservancy | Jul 5, 2018 | Partners, Community, Park History, Studies and Reports
Last month, the Balboa Park Conservancy marked the 150-year anniversary of Balboa Park’s founding by convening a special community workshop to explore the remarkable history of the park’s early development. Balboa Park stakeholders, from both within and outside the...
by Balboa Park Conservancy | Feb 27, 2018 | Park History, Studies and Reports
Recently Balboa Park celebrated the centennial of the 1915 Panama California Exposition and how its impact on the Central Mesa continues to define the park’s distinctive character today. The park itself, however, was actually founded almost 50 years prior to the epic...
by Balboa Park Conservancy | Feb 27, 2018 | Park History, Studies and Reports
Throughout 2018, to help mark the park’s 150-year anniversary, we will feature a prominent figure in Balboa Park’s history, highlighting his or her unique role in the park’s early development.* While the names of Kate Sessions, George Marston, and Alonzo Horton are...
by Balboa Park Conservancy | Nov 21, 2017 | Sustain, Enhance, Envision, Volunteers, Board Members, Park History
Volunteers are the lifeblood of any nonprofit organization. The Balboa Park Conservancy is no different. In fact, until the late 1980s, the organization that operated the House of Hospitality building (and eventually merged with the Conservancy*) had very few paid...
by Balboa Park Conservancy | Aug 21, 2017 | Sustain, Board Members, Park History, Studies and Reports
The original formal entrance to Balboa Park was located at Eighth Avenue and Date Street. But wait…there is no such address? Unfortunately, this entrance disappeared under the I-5 decades ago. Earlier this summer, I—along with several thousand other...
