Casa de Balboa

This guide to Casa de Balboa in Balboa Park, San Diego, starts with the fire that tore through the wooden Electric Building on the night of February 22, 1978, destroying much of the Aerospace Museum's collection inside. It follows the decade-plus mystery of who set it, and the long fundraising campaign of raffles, bake sales and donations that paid to rebuild the hall stone for stone. Preservationists spent four years piecing the exterior back together, matching the original 1915 stonework.