Document Archives Record
Metadata
Collection |
MS 171 |
Title |
Helen Bloomenshine Balboa Park Protective Association Collection |
Object type |
Documents |
Catalog Number |
MS 171 |
Creator |
Bloomenshine, Helen |
Year Range from |
1896 |
Year Range to |
1983 |
Scope & Content |
Abstract: This collection contains items relating to the Balboa Park Protective Association that document their efforts for the preservation of San Diego’s Balboa Park. Biographical/Historical Notes: The Balboa Park Protective Association was formed in 1947, and sought to preserve the prevailing architecture in Balboa Park while preventing further incursion of peripheral roads, encroachment by other buildings and organizations, and the increased sprawl of parking lots. The Association worked to subvert various plans and projects that called for further development of the park and its grounds. Helen Bloomenshine was a co-founder of the Balboa Park Protective Association (along with Eleanor Edmiston). She and her associates lobbied politicians, organized concerned citizens and placed petitions on the ballot in an effort to enact the desired preservation, but the Association "achieved only slight success," as Bloomenshine stated. They succeeded in preventing the incursion of roads called for in the controversial Bartholomew Plan, but failed in thwarting further development of the park, such as the construction of the Timken Museum building and the relocation of the U.S. Naval Hospital onto Park grounds. After the Association was ended in 1967, its work and efforts were continued by the Committee of 100. Scope and Content: The collection consists of documents related to a variety of projects against which Balboa Park Protective Association rallied. These items include correspondence, newsletters, mailings, court documents, and speeches. There is also information about club membership, brief reports about the various projects, and local election information and bond propositions. Scrapbooks include correspondence with city officials, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. Projects mentioned in the collection include: Maple Canyon Road; Naval Hospital Expansion; Fine Arts Gallery; Timken Museum; Florida Canyon; and Bartholomew Plan. |
Quantity |
1.5 Linear feet (3 boxes) |
Notes |
Original photographs of Eleanor Edmiston and Harry Haelsig, and Point Loma Junior-Senior High School Student Body (1941) now in SDHC Photographic Department, OP12590 and OP12591, respectively. Collection processed as part of grant project supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) with generous funding from The Andrew Mellon Foundation. |
Finding Aid |
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/archives/archivalcollections/ms171 |
Names |
Bloomenshine, Helen Edmiston, Eleanor Hatch, Ruby Jacot, Henri Marston, Hamilton Martin, Philip P. Sessions, Kate Olivia, 1857-1940 Tharp, Ross Balboa Park Protective Association. Citizens Coordinate for Century 3. Citizens Coordinate. Committee of 100 (San Diego, Calif.). Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. Fine Arts Society of San Diego (Calif.). Harland Bartholomew & Associates. Putnam Foundation. San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego Museum of Man. Timken Museum of Art. |