Gaslamp Landmarks – Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation

Landmarks

A Place to Lay Your Weary Head……..

What do all of these buildings have in common? They are all still hotels, but [...]

A Rose by Any Other Name…….

Choate-Gerichten-Peterson Block a.k.a. Ingersoll Tutton Mercantile Building 1894 818-836 5th Avenue Architect – Joseph Falkenham [...]

26
Jun

The Lion Roars Again!

Ingle Building/Golden Lion 1906 NE Corner of Fourth and F St. Architect – Joseph Falkenham [...]

03
Jun

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

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 [...]