California Quadrangle, the East or State Gateway of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, Balboa Park,
San Diego, California. Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture.
As the west gateway of the California Quadrangle is a part of the city-built Fine Arts BUilding, so in like manner the east gateway is designed to be the formal entrance for the California State Building. This is clearly indicated by the conventionalized coat-of-arms of the State over the arch, executed, as is all the decorative work excepting the spandrels, in modeled stone.
The spandrels over the arch are filled with high-glazed colored tile representing, or rather commemorating, on one side the commencement of the Spanish occupation of California, and on the other that of the American government, two important dates in the history of the State. These historical events are represented by the coat-of-arms and motto of Spain and the date, 1769, that of Junipero Serra's arrival in Sand Diego; and by the seal of the United States with the data 1846, that of the State Constitutional Convention at Monterey.
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Winslow, Carleton Monroe (1916). THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE GARDENS of the SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company.
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Carleton Monroe Winslow
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