House of Pacific Relations International Cottages

The House of Pacific Relations International Cottages is a complex of cottages in San Diego's Balboa Park, in the U.S. state of California. Built for the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition, they currently house 33 groups that "promote multicultural goodwill and understanding through educational and cultural programs".[1] Groups that do not have their own cottage meet in the nearby Hall of Nations.[2] The United Nations Association of San Diego operates separately out of the neighboring United Nations Building.[3]

Several of the cottages in 2009

All of the houses are of countries in Europe, save for six. They are Iran, Israel, Puerto Rico, the United States of America, China, and the Philippines. Some of the houses, including Norway and Hungary, serve sweet food from the nation the house is tied to.

In 2020, the House of Pacific Relations International Cottages began its expansion, adding new cottages for Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Peru, India, Palestine, and Turkey.

Cottages

There are 33 cultures represented in the park represented by 32 cottages, and currently the park is in the process of building five more cottages representing nine more cultures.[4] Prior to 1992, Czechoslovakia was represented as a single cottage, and since its' partition, both cultures still share the same cottage.[5] The current 32 cottages are:[6]

References
  1. "House of Pacific Relations International Cottages - Balboa Park". balboapark.org. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  2. "More International Cottages Coming to Balboa Park". NBC 7 San Diego. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  3. "United Nations - San Diego". Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  4. {{Cite web| title = HPR - Home Page| accessdate = 2020-11-30| url = https://www.sdhpr.org/index.html
  5. "Czech and Slovak Cottage - About". Retrieved 2020-11-30.
  6. "Countries Represented". Retrieved 2020-11-30.

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