Brea City Hall and Park
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Brea City Hall and Park | |
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| Location | 401 S. Brea Blvd., Brea, California |
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| Coordinates | 33°54′51″N 117°54′5″W / 33.91417°N 117.90139°WCoordinates: 33°54′51″N 117°54′5″W / 33.91417°N 117.90139°W |
| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Allen Ruott |
| Architectural style | Art Deco, Mission/Spanish Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 84000917 |
| Added to NRHP | May 24, 1984[1] |
Brea City Hall and Park, in Brea, California, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
The Brea City Hall, designed by architect Allen Ruott, is Art Deco in styling and was built in 1928. It included a public library. A bathhouse and swimming pool and the surrounding park were also all designed by Ruott, as a unit. According to the NRHP nomination, the "use by Ruoff in the 1920's of Art Deco/Spanish Revival styling for civic architecture constitutes a major landmark in the small-scale urban environment of Brea and Orange County."[2]
The park, pool and city hall were funded by a $60,000 bond approved by the municipality in an October 1927 special election.[2]
An American Legion Hall, built in 1931, is another contributing building in the listing.[2]
The pool, called the "plunge", is a 25-meter municipal pool.[2]
Brea was incorporated in 1917 and then had 732 citizens.[2]
The facilities served, among others, oil field workers and their families who lived in an adjacent neighborhood developed in the 1920s by the Union Oil Company.[2]
See also
References
- 1 2 National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tom Combiths and Pam Eicholtz (June 8, 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: or Registration: Brea City Hall and Park" (PDF). National Park Service. with 17 photos from 1983
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