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| | Balboa Park, Botanical Building (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Gardeners are conscientious and knowledgeable about plants, but they are constrained by the size of the building, by the many potted plants that have to be taken out as blooms fade, and by the unruly nature of plants that periodically burst through the roof. |
 | | The Botanical Building in Balboa Park was renovated in early 2002 to restore damaged lath and otherwise defective fixtures within the building at a cost of $534,000.00, approximately ten times the $53,386.00 cost of the building in 1915, |
 | | Carleton M. Winslow, who designed the Botanical Building, declared that the laths were redwood (red-wood) and that the steel trusses were painted to match the redwood. |
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