Bea Evenson Fountain, Modernist fountain in Balboa Park, San Diego, United States.
The Bea Evenson Fountain is a circular fountain set flush into the paved Plaza de Balboa in Balboa Park. A wide band of reddish-brown brick tiles and a low curved concrete curb ring a shallow pool of pale turquoise water, from which a tall central jet and smaller surrounding jets rise. Small white rectangular posts stand in the water, and a white building with arched windows and a roofline balustrade rises behind.
Architect Homer Delawie designed this fountain in 1972 to honor Beatrice Barker Evenson, who had relocated to San Diego decades earlier. She became instrumental in efforts to restore the park's historic Spanish Colonial architecture.
The fountain honors Beatrice Barker Evenson, a community advocate who dedicated herself to preserving the park's character and historic buildings. Her legacy remains visible in how the park is maintained today.
The fountain sits near the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and serves as a convenient landmark for orientation within the park. You can easily reach it on foot from the main pathways that run through Balboa Park.
The fountain was built in 1972 on the Plaza de Balboa, and it was dedicated to Bea Evenson in May 1981, the year she died. Evenson (1900–1981) was the founding president of the Committee of 100, formed in the late 1960s to save or rebuild the 1915 Panama–California Exposition buildings.
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