Landmarks

Not Exactly the Favorite Son!

Although the architect is unknown, the architecture is unique in the Gaslamp, as it is [...]

29
Apr
What’s in a Name

The Timken Building 1894 Southwest Corner of 5th and Market Streets Architect: Joseph Falkenham Architectural [...]

02
Apr
No More Wine-ing!

The Daneri Block/Lincoln Hotel    1913     536 Fifth Avenue Architectural Style: Victorian with Elements of Art [...]

15
Feb
Curtain Going Up!

Balboa Theatre 1924 648 4th Avenue,  Southwest Corner of Fourth and E Architectural Style: Spanish [...]

25
Jan
Reaching for the Stars

The Watts-Robinson Building 1913 Northeast Corner of 5th and E Street Architects: Leonard T. Bristow [...]

02
Jan
The U.S. Grant Hotel

The U.S. Grant Hotel | 326 Broadway   Architect: Harrison Albright Style: Classic Revival When Alonzo [...]

05
Dec
The History of a Historian

Bancroft Building/ Aztec Theatre             1886 665 Fifth Avenue Architectural Style: Modern  Architect: Clinton Day Some [...]

30
Nov
Pick Your Poison!

Brunswig Drug Company 363 5th Avenue Architectural Style – Spanish Revival Architect: William Quayle – [...]

01
Nov
From Hardware to Hard Core to Haute Cuisine

Commercial Bank Addition / Bijou Theater (1875658 Fifth Avenue Architectural Style – Florentine Revival William [...]

03
Oct
From Junk to Java

The Frey Block (1911) 435 Fourth Ave.; SW Corner of 4th and Market Architect: S.G. [...]

29
Aug
No Nods from Lady Luck!

The Broker’s Building1889 404 Market Street Architects: G.T. Burkett and R.E. Osgood (1873)Barnett McDougal (1889) [...]

26
Jul
San Diego’s Grand Old Lady

Old City Hall    1874 and 1888 5th and G Street, SW Corner   Architectural Style: [...]

28
Jun
A Victorian 4th of July!

Forty one percent of Americans polled did not know why we celebrate the Fourth of [...]

28
May
Cole Block Building

1892 702 Fifth Avenue Architect: John Stannard Architectural Style: Mixed The site of the current [...]

01
May
Business Was Booming!

Like most properties sold by Alonzo Horton in the late 1860s, the lot on the [...]

30
Mar
From Jessop’s, to Dime Store, to Hardware Emporium

San Diego Hardware Building 1910 840-50 5th Avenue Architectural Style – Modern T.W. Coates, Builder [...]

19
Feb
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A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Louis Bank Of Commerce

1888 835-837 5th Avenue Architectural Style : Baroque Revival Architects: Clemment and Stannard   In [...]

29
Jan
Davis-Horton House -168 Years and Still Standing!

The Davis-Horton House  1850 410 Island Avenue  Architecture: Two-Story Wooden New England Saltbox  Mortice and [...]

04
Jan
The Ghost of Christmas Past – A Victorian Christmas

No era has influenced the way we celebrate Christmas as much as the Victorian era. [...]

30
Nov
The Pacifica Hotel

All the World’s a Stage….. and More The Pacifica Hotel 551 Fourth Avenue  Circa 1910 [...]

02
Nov
The I.O.O.F. Building

            Very Fancy And Not Odd At All I.O.O.F. Building [...]

26
Sep
The Granger Building

1904 964 5th Avenue                                                      Architectural Style: Romanesque Architect: William Quayle            [...]

30
Aug
The Callan Hotel

 San Diego’s First “Zoo” 1878 Three Story Brick Structure 502 Fifth Avenue Architects: Stannard & [...]

23
Aug
Backesto Building

Back-esto in Time  The Backesto Building 1873 &1887 Architects: Burgett and Osgood  Architectural Style: Classical [...]

23
Aug
Dead Center in the Old Red-light District

The Marin Hotel 1888 552 Fifth Avenue Architectural Style: Victorian Architect: Unknown John Nelson Young [...]

04
Aug
Nesmith-Greely Building’s Long San Diego History

Nesmith-Greely Building 1888 825 Fifth Avenue Romanesque Revival Architects: Comstock and Notsche On March 27, [...]

03
Jun
The Carriage House

The Carriage House Building 401 G Street Architect Unknown On December 23,1869, John D. Backesto [...]

03
May
The Tale of the Fox and the Lion

Samuel I. Fox Building, 1929 Architect: William Templeton Johnson Architectural Style: Mission Revival  & Mediterranean Location: [...]

03
Apr
The Hotel Lester

The Hotel Lester (1906 and 1914)   Architects: William Quayle and Quayle Brothers Style: Romanesque To [...]

02
Mar
Hats Off to the Yuma Building

1882 – 188 631 Fifth Avenue Architects : Armitage and Wilson Victorian Italianate Revival When [...]

04
Jan
Early Shopping Emporiums of San Diego: “Shop ‘till you drop” 1880’s style

Marston Building, 1881 548 C Street Architects: Stewart Brothers Style – Italianate Victorian Whitney Department [...]

01
Dec
Horton Grand Hotel: Then and Now

The beautiful Horton Grand Hotel, a Gaslamp landmark, was originally two Victorian hotels: the Grand [...]

01
Aug