COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Hotel del Coronado
Image View:
Pool pavilions, general view looking northwest
Creator:
James William Reid (American architect, 1851-1943); Watson Reid (American architect, died 1943)
Location:
site: Coronado, California, United States
Location Note:
1500 Orange Avenue
GPS:
+32.680956-117.178417
Date:
1887-1888 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Nineteenth century; Victorian
Work Type 1:
hotel (public accommodation)
Work Type 2:
spa
Classification:
architecture
Material:
wood
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architecture; business, commerce and trade; recreation and games; festivals; seascape; vacations; recreation
Description:
The Hotel del Coronado is a beachfront luxury hotel in the city of Coronado, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. It is one of the few surviving examples of an American architectural genre: the wooden Victorian beach resort. It is one of the oldest and largest all-wooden buildings in California and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977. When it opened in 1888, it was the largest resort hotel in the world, and the first to utilize electrical lighting. A freshwater pipeline was run under San Diego Bay. Water tanks and gravity flow fire sprinklers were installed. Reid installed the world's first oil furnace in the new hotel. Electric lighting in a hotel was also a world first. Thomas Edison inspected the final electrical installation and returned in 1904 to oversee the nation's first illuminated outdoor Christmas tree, which was placed on the hotel's lawn. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier:
1A1-RMJ-HDC-B12
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Hotel del Coronado
