KATE O. SESSIONS
NAMED PUBLIC SPACES AND COMMEMORATIONS IN SAN DIEGO

Kate Sessions Memorial Park
Soledad Road, Pacific Beach

 

 

 

 

Kate Sessions Elementary School
Beryl Street, Pacific Beach

 

Kate O. Sessions Cactus Garden
Balboa Park

 

Sessions-Brandegee Hesper Palm Grove
Balboa Park

 

Kate Sessions Canyon
Bankers Hill

 

Sessions Family Burial Site
Graves of Kate Sessions, her brother and her parents Mount Hope Cemetery, Market Street, San Diego

 

Kate Sessions Avenue
Mount Hope Cemetery, Market Street, San Diego

 

Kate Sessions Way 
Pacific Beach

STATUE & HISTORIC MARKER

Kate Sessions Statue
Laurel Street Entrance, Balboa Park

 

Kate Olivia Sessions Nursery Site
California Historical Landmark No. 764

 

Nearby the California Historical Landmark No. 764 is a Tipuana tipu tree planted by Sessions.
Garnet and Pico Streets, Pacific Beach

Sessions planted the diagonal line of eucalyptus trees marching across Pioneer Park in the Mission Hills neighborhood. The park was originally a cemetery and the trees divided the Protestant and Catholic plots.  

KATE O. SESSIONS
COMMEMORATIONS IN SAN DIEGO

Kate Sessions Nursery
San Diego Parks and Recreation in-house plant nursery Pershing Drive, Balboa Park

 

Museum of Us California Tower
A named step remembers Kate Sessions Balboa Park

 

Botanical Building
A named bench remembers Kate Sessions Balboa Park

 

Kate O. Sessions Memorial Plaque
San Diego Floral Association and local garden clubs memorialized Sessions in 1996 with a tree planting and the placement of this plaque in Balboa Park near the international cottages.

 

California Garden Autumn 1958 - Volume 44 No 1

In 1953, San Diego Floral Association devoted an entire issue of California Garden to Sessions. Most of the content was provided by people who had known and worked with Sessions. Download PDF.

 

San Diego Central Library Entrance Plaza
A named brick remembers Kate Sessions
Park Boulevard, Downtown San Diego

 

Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Branch Library
A study room plaque commemorates Kate Sessions’ use of and support for public libraries. West Washington Street, Hillcrest

 

Mission Hills Nursery
Private business descended from Sessions’ former nursery in the Mission Hills neighborhood. Fort Stockton Drive, San Diego

 

Kate O. Sessions Oil Portrait
Anni Balddaugh, 1937
San Diego Floral Association library, Balboa Park

 

Kate O. Sessions Oil Portrait
Mary Belle Williams, 1935
San Diego Central Library, Ninth Floor
Park Boulevard, Downtown San Diego

 

Kate Sessions Trees / Kate Sessions Commitment
Non-profit organization that maintains and expands the San Diego tree canopy. https://katestrees.org

The Women’s Museum of California named Sessions
to the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame in 2006.
https://www.sandiegowomenshalloffame.com/inductees2/2006