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Casa de Balboa ~ reconstructed 1981

Casa de Balboa


• Built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition
• Original building was meant to last a year
• Known as the "Electric Building" when destroyed by arson fire 1977
• Ornamentation (296 specimens) was removed just 10 days before fire
• Reconstruction funded by insurance and federal grant



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