1600 Pacific Hwy., San Diego, California. County/parish: San Diego.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 16, 1988. NRIS 88000554.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site. 1 contributing object.Also known as:
The San Diego County Administration Center is a historic Beaux-Arts/Spanish Revival–style building in San Diego, California. It houses the offices of the government of San Diego County. Due to its notable architecture and location fronting San Diego Bay, it is nicknamed the Jewel on the Bay.
It was completed in 1938 and was primarily funded by the Works Progress Administration. Architects were Samuel Wood Hamill, William Templeton Johnson, Richard Requa and Louis John Gill. The building used innovative construction techniques to guard against earthquakes, and the project was considered to be "a prototype of American civic center architecture". The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 1988.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860972