page_title: Brea City Hall and Park
section_title: Amenities
hierarchical_section_title: Brea City Hall and Park / Amenities
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail of Brea-Olinda field in LA and Orange counties; all data shown is in the public domain; by self in ArcGIS 9.3
context_page_description: Brea City Hall Park, in Brea, California, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
  The Brea City Hall, designed by architect Allen Ruott, is combination of Art Deco and Spanish Colonial Revival in styling and was built in 1928.
  It included a public library as well as the site for the Brea Police Department and jail.
  The site is located near the original Downtown Brea and is one of the city's oldest remaining structures.
  An American Legion Hall, built in 1931, is another contributing building in the listing.
  The building has been restored and is now home to the Brea Lions Scout Center. The agreement was approved by the City Council in 1994. The City of Brea provided $200,000 and the Brea Lion Scout Foundation added $168,000 for the first phase.
context_section_description: 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 Ruott in the 1920s of Art Deco/Spanish Revival styling for civic architecture constitutes a major landmark in the small-scale urban environment of Brea and Orange County."
  The site has been altered slightly since but much of the structure is still in its original state.
  The park, pool and city hall were funded by a $60,000 bond approved by the municipality in an October 1927 special election.
  The pool, called the "plunge", is a 25-meter municipal pool and is one of the oldest swimming pools in California still in operation.
  New additions have been made since the construction of the original park which include a basketball court, rose garden, and a playground which have been constructed since the 1970s.
caption: Brea Oil Fields which allowed much of the region to grow under the Union Oil Company in the early 1920s
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