Today Kongo visits historic Marston House at the northwest corner of Balboa Park and learned a few things about architecture and the history of San Diego.  When this house was built in 1905 by the architects William Hebbard and Irving Gill, Balboa Park was known as City Park and the entire area was nothing much more than scrub, adobe clay, and untamed canyons.  It was far, far away from downtown but not for long.  It became an important architectural transition structure that helped to usher in the Prairie School of style which exploded in San Diego in the early 20th Century. Continue reading “Marston House”