PC-000-885A

Main entrance to Hotel Robinson, San Diego, California

 

1907

 

 

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 photograph on this card is the same as the one on PC-000-881, possibly published later, since that card has a seal of the San Diego Panama-California Exposition of 1915 on the back.

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

M. Rieder, Los Angeles, California, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

Journal San Dego History (Summer 1995, Vol. 41, No. 3, online at San Diego History Center; Journal of San Diego History Fall 2002, Vol. 48 # 4, online; History Center photo #1881 (1930) of Casaloma; San Diego Tourist V11, iss11 1918 p.12 (Google book)

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Main Entrance Hotel Robinson, San Diego, Cal.

[handwritten in ink after printed caption]
This is where we are staying

 

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