Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - shopping centers
Designers: Graham, John and Company, Architects and Engineers (firm); John Graham Jr. (architect); Lionel Henry Pries (architect)
Dates: constructed 1959-1960
The Seattle architectural firm of John Graham and Company designed the College Grove Shopping Center in San Diego, CA; Lionel H. Pries (1897-1968), the noted architect and educator at the University of Washington, worked with John Graham and Company at the time, and assisted in the design of the exterior and landscape. (See Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator, [Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007], p. 378.)
Like virtually all shopping centers, the College Grove Shopping Center has seen periodic alterations and updates in style.
PCAD id: 18504