The 8,500sq-ft Arts and Crafts mansion (1905, Irving Gill) was built as the home of local department-store owner George White Marston-benefactor of Presidio Park-and his wife, Anna Gunn Marston. Currently operated by the San Diego Historical Society ..

The foundations of Spanish colonial history in Alta California lie atop this prominent knoll, from which sweeping views extend over San Diego. The beautifully landscaped park features a fine historical museum and archaeological remains of the first E..

Looming over the western end of Mission Valley, this stately, white museum building (1929, William Templeton Johnson) is a San Diego landmark. Capped by a commanding tower, the Mission Revival structure features characteristic Spanish Colonial elemen..

California's first mission, with its gleaming white stucco façade and distinctive five-bell campanario, occupies a secluded site on the north slope of the San Diego River valley. The Mother of the Missions was named for St. Didacus of Alcalá, a 15C S..

Sugar magnate John D. Spreckels commissioned the imposing and elegant Baroque theater (1912) to celebrate the opening of both the Panama Canal and San Diego's 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park. The lobby's walls and ceiling gleam with ..

Distinguished by two elegant towers facing Broadway, the Spanish Colonial-style train station (1915, Bakewell & Brown Jr.) was built to handle the increased traffic of visitors arriving for the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, replacing a..

San Diego's tallest building, this tapered, 34-story office tower (1991) rises to a star-shaped pinnacle above walls of glass and white granite. Adjoining, a crescent-shaped glass-and-steel canopy shelters a trolley station and connects the tower to ..

The Gaslamp District's oldest surviving structure, a two-story saltbox built from a Sears catalog on the East Coast in 1850 and shipped around Cape Horn, is named San Franciscan William Heath Davis, a San Francisco financier who tried, yet failed, to..

Permanent and changing exhibits on the city's history since the 1840s are presented here, including photos, decorative arts and children's items.

This museum houses one of the largest operating model railroad displays in North America. Actual former Southern California railroads are paid tribute with four working scale-model train exhibits and an interactive toy-train room.

Founded in 1874, the San Diego Society of Natural History opened its first museum in 1920 in Casa de Balboa. The present imposing two-story building fronting Plaza de Balboa was finished in 1933. A major renovation in March 2001 more than doubled the..

Five changing interactive exhibit galleries, a dome-screen theater and a 23-rider motion simulator for SciTour "voyages" of space discovery share this Spanish Colonial structure, built in 1973 and doubled in size in 1998. The center is name..