Bea Evenson Fountain is an outdoor fountain in
San Diego
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's
Balboa Park, in the
U.S. state
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of
California
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.
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,]
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1972 establishments in California
Balboa Park (San Diego)
Buildings and structures in San Diego
Fountains in California
Monuments and memorials to women
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