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He built several downtown buildings, including the Union Building in 1908, Spreckels Theatre in 1912, [8] the Hotel San Diego, and the Golden West Hotel. He employed thousands of people and at one time he paid 10% of all the property taxes in San Diego County.
Hotel del Coronado, also known as The Del and Hotel Del, is a historic beachfront hotel in Coronado, California, just across San Diego Bay from San Diego.A rare surviving example of an American architectural genre—the wooden Victorian beach resort—it was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970 [4] and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
2741 San Diego Ave., Old Town 11/6/1970 14F: Congress Hall Site: 426 Calhoun St. & 408 Wallace St., Old Town December 6, 1932 Demolished in 1939 14G: Casa de Machado-Stewart: 2724 Congress St., Old Town 11/6/1970 14H: Mason Street School: 3960 Mason St., Old Town 11/6/1970 14I: The Exchange Hotel Site: San Diego Ave (Southside facing Plaza ...
San Diego Bay is a natural harbor and deepwater port in San Diego County, California, near the Mexico–United States border. The bay, which is 12 miles (19 km) long and 1 to 3 miles (1.6 to 4.8 km) wide, is the third largest of the three large, protected natural bays on California's 840 miles (1,350 km) of coastline, after San Francisco Bay ...
Coronado (Spanish for "Crowned") is a resort city in San Diego County, California, United States, across San Diego Bay from downtown San Diego. [5] It was founded in the 1880s and incorporated in 1890. Its population was 20,192 in 2020, [6] down from 24,697 in 2010. [7] [8]
Meanwhile San Diego's real estate boom had ended and the development was in financial trouble. The Cliff House Hotel burned down in 1898. His partner Higgins committed suicide in 1889. Carlson sold the Ocean Beach development to an Eastern financier, and its development would wait until 1909, when D. C. Collier built a permanent railroad line.
The Hotel del Charro was a resort hotel in La Jolla, California, famous for its discreet hospitality to deal-making politicians, wealthy industrialists, and Hollywood celebrities, including Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, John Wayne, William Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Ferrer, and La Jolla native Gregory Peck.
The Lafayette Hotel and Club is a hotel in San Diego, California, United States, that opened July 1, 1946. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 2012. [2] [3] The Lafayette's original name was Imig Manor, owned by local entrepreneur Larry Imig. It was originally built at a cost of $2 million on El Cajon Boulevard.