PC-002-454

El Mirasol, Santa Barbara, California

 

 

 

Photographic paper: Artura

This is a Real Photo Post Card developed in sepiatone showing a hotel with arches beside and over doorways and sidewalks leading to them. Lawn, trees and flowers, with trellises and a tile roof complete the picture of a one-story adobe building. This home, called "El Mirasol," filled a city block in Montecito. It was designed in 1905 by New York architects Delano and Aldrich for Mary Herter. In 1913, her heirs turned the home into the El Mirasol Hotel. In 1966 fire damage threw the property ownership into a state of continual flux that ended with the buildings being razed, with donation to the City of Santa Barbara in 1975. The site was eventually used for the Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens. The brand of photographic paper used, according to the design of the stampbox on the divided back, was made from 1911-1921.

Santa Barbara; El Mirasol; El Mirasol Hotel; Hotels; Real Photo Post Cards; RPPC; Artura photographic papers

 

California - Santa Barbara - Montecito

 

 

MS-0008

 

 

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

No

 

 

 

Image

TIFF

20.34 MB