City of San Diego Historic Landmarks
EI Prado Area Balboa Park Long, wide promenade running through the center of Balboa Park, lined with Spanish Revival buildings.
Fort Stockton Presidio Park Old Town Site fortified by Carlos Carrillo in 1828; named Fort Stockton and became headquarters for ending the Californio revolt of 1847
Presidio of San Diego Site Presidio Park Fort established by Spanish forces in 1769 was the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Coast; the first of the presidios and base of operations for the Spanish colonization of California
Pantoja Park Downtown, Marina district Built in 1850, it is the oldest park in downtown San Diego; located on G Street at India Street.
San Pasqual Battlefield Site San Pasqual Valley Site where, in 1846, Stephen W. Kearny's US Army column battled the Californios.
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park State historic park preserves and recreates San Diego's old town, from shortly after the Mexican War of Independence during its pueblo Alta California period beginning in 1821, through the Bear Flag Revolt, the American period, and ending in 1872, 22 years after statehood
Casa de Bandini Large U-shaped house built in 1829 by Juan Bandini; later converted to use as a store and, in 1869, the Cosmopolitan Hotel
Chapel of the Immaculate Conception Old Town Other than the San Diego Mission, the oldest church in San Diego; built in the 1850s as a home; converted to a church
Whaling Station Site Ballast Point Peninsula Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s.
Lighthouse of 1854 Cabrillo National Monument Lighthouse built at the mouth of San Diego Bay from 1854-1855; remained in service until 1891; restored and relit by the National Park Service in 1984
Fort Guijarros Near base of Ballast Point
PeninsulaSpanish fort built in 1797 on Ballast Point as the first defensive fortifications for San Diego Bay,
Ford Building Balboa Park Streamline Moderne structure, now home to the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
Spreckels Theater Theater designed by Harrison Albright for John D. Spreckels; touted as "the first modern commercial playhouse west of the Mississippi" at opening in 1912
Balboa Theatre Built in 1924 as a grand movie palace; converted to housing for the U.S. Navy during World War"; reopened in 2005 as a live theater and concert venue
Temple Beth Israel Heritage Park, Old Town Temple Beth Israel is San Diego's first synagogue. Ii is located in Heritage Park in San Diego's Old Town area. The first services held here were in 1889.
Mission Beach Roller Coaster Wooden roller coaster built in 1925 in Belmont Park on Mission Beach; also known as the Giant Dipper
George H. Scripps Memorial Marine Biological Laboratory La Jolla Oldest oceanographic research building in continuous use in the United States built in 1909, as part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the nation's first oceanographic institute founded in 1903
Gaslamp Quarter Historic District Historical neighborhood in Downtown - San Diego; development began in 1867, when Alonzo Horton bought the land in hopes of creating a new city center closer to the bay.
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