PC-000-881

Main entrance of Hotel Robinson, San Diego, California

 

circa 1915

 

Eno & Matteson, San Diego, California

The Hotel Florence was designed by William W. Bowers (1834-1917, Alonzo Horton's brother-in-law) and opened in 1884. In 1891, San Diego architect William Sterling Hebbard (1863-1930) remodeled the hotel. By 1907 the hotel was known as the Hotel Robinson, and by 1918 it had changed names again to Casa Loma. The back of this card has a seal of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 and a paragraph in the message space advertising 300 "Southern California Views" for sale from Eno & Matteson, San Diego. The back also bears the Benham Company logo, with their number 2053. This picture appears to be the same as the one on PC-000-885A, with a different publisher.

William W. Bowers; Hotel Florence; Florence Hotel; Casa Loma; San Diego; Hotel Robinson; Robinson Hotel; Hotels; William Hebbard

300 Fir

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

The Benham Company, Los Angeles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

PC-000-881; Journal San Diego History (Summer 1995, Vol. 41, No. 3, San Diego History Center; Journal of San Diego History Fall 2002, Vol. 48 # 4; History Center photo #1881 (1930) of Casa Loma; San Diego Tourist V11, iss11 1918 p.12 (Google book)

[superimposed on photograph at top center]
Main Entrance, Hotel Robinson, San Diego, Calif.

 

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