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- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
Hotel St. James, San Diego, 1923
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PC-000-904
San Diego's Tallest Building, Hotel St. James in San Diego, California, 1923
1923
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Curt Teich
At 11 stories, the St. James Hotel was the tallest building in San Diego when it was built in 1912, opened in 1913. The rooftop continues to command a view of downtown in 2013, when it is operated as the Ramada Gaslamp/Convention Center. This was not the first St. James Hotel in San Diego. Shown here and on other picture postcards in this collection (PC-000-902, -904, -905, and -906), this St. James Hotel was preceded by one on F Street built in 1885 and described as San Diego's first "skyscraper." Hyman S. Wolf with his brother and cousin built this St. James Hotel in the San Diego Gaslamp Quarter in anticipation of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915. TheCurt Teich number on the back of this card is A-93211. This photograph is the same as the one used on postcard PC-000-905 in this collection.
St. James Hotel; San Diego; Hotels; Skyscrapers; High-rise buildings; Curt Teich
830 Sixth Avenue
California - San Diego
- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
Postcard
3.5 inches x 5.5 inches
No
Journal of San Diego History Apr 1956 V2 #2, Norma Jane Pearson, "The Glittering St. James Hotel" for older hotel; San Diego History Center photograph #1876-2 (1914); Marker #73 by Gaslamp Quarter, front of St. James Hotel; PC-000-902, -903, -905, -906
[printed in white border at top]
San Diego's Tallest Building
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This
Is
Where
Our
State
Society
Meets
[printed in white border at bottom]
Hotel St. James, between E and F Streets, San Diego, Calif.
[sign on side of building]
Hotel St. James
Absolutely fixed price
[sign above overhang]
St. James
San Diego's Tallest Building
[printed superimposed on photograph at right]
This
Is
Where
Our
State
Society
Meets
[printed in white border at bottom]
Hotel St. James, between E and F Streets, San Diego, Calif.
[sign on side of building]
Hotel St. James
Absolutely fixed price
[sign above overhang]
St. James
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TIFF
19.68 MB
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