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Bea Evenson Fountain
Bea Evenson Fountain is an outdoor fountain in San Diego's Balboa Park, in the U.S. state of California. Designed by noted modernist architect Homer Delawie, the fountain honors Bea Evenson (1900–1981), the founding president of the park's Committee of 100, organized in the late 1960s to save or reconstruct the buildings of the Panama–California Exposition The Panama–California Exposition was an exposition held in San Diego, California, between January 1, 1915, and January 1, 1917. The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first United Stat ... of 1915. Built in 1972 on the Plaza de Balboa, the fountain was dedicated to Evenson in May 1981. References External links * 1972 establishments in California Balboa Park (San Diego) Buildings and structures in San Diego Fountains in California Monuments and memorials to women {{California-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homer Delawie
Homer T. Delawie, FAIA, was an award-winning modernist architect working (primarily) in San Diego from the late 1950s to the 1990s. He designed numerous public, commercial, and residential projects, including the Bea Evenson Fountain in the Plaza de Panama, Balboa Park, the Coronado Library, the M. Larry Lawrence Jewish Community Center and expansion, the Scripps Miramar Ranch High School, the School of Creative & Performing Arts in South Bay, the San Diego Hospice, and projects for UCSD, the San Diego Zoo, San Diego State University, and Qualcomm. Born in Santa Barbara on September 24, 1927, Delawie worked in forestry as a teen before serving in the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II. He graduated from the new School of Architecture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1951. Delawie was the school's first licensed architect, its first National Design Award winner, and its first to be elected to the AIA’s National College of Fellows. Delawie worked briefly with modernist architect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
