Save Our Heritage Organisation
Reflections Quarterly Newsletter

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Summer 2006 - Volume 37, Issue 2

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100 Lost Buildings in San Diego

1. State Normal School
2. Tent City Pavilion (Coronado)
3. Timken House
4. Mrs. Grant House/U.S. Grant Presidential Library
5. Melville Klauber House
6. E. Milton Barber House
7. First National Bank Building (1880's Victorian, 5th & E)
8. Santa Fe Depot (Gothic, replaced by 1915 Depot)
9. Forecourt of the 1915 Santa Fe Depot
10. Anna Held Arc House and Green Dragon Colony
11. Florence Hotel
12. Balboa Naval Hospital
13. Victorian School Buildings:
    • B Street School (1889, 6th & B)
    • Middletown Grammar
    • Russ School (site of SD High)
    • Sherman School
14. Fisher Opera House/Isis Theater
15. Tower at Bishops School
16. Pierce-Morse Block
17. Methodist Church Block
18. Knights of Pythais Hall
19. Fullford/Hamilton House
20. San Diego High Grey Stone Castle
21. Horton's Homes, all four
22. Horton House Hotel
23. Levi Chase House
24. Heinchmen House
25. Gay Mansion
26. Casa de Lopez
27. Casa De Cota
28. Casa Serrano
29. Casa De Soto
30. Casa de Pico
31. Couts Townhouse
32. Judge Witherby House
33. Pacific Coast Steamship Company
34. The Commonwealth Building & Pantages Theater
35. 1915 Expo Buildings:
    • Home Economy
    • Indian Village Pueblo
    • Japanese Tea House
    • Kansas State
    • Kern & Tulare Counties
    • Montana State
    • Nevada State
    • Sacramento Valley
    • San Joaquin Valley
    • Science and Education
    • Southern California Counties
    • Utah State
    • Washington State
36. 1935 Expo buildings:
    • Palace of Travel
    • Standard Oil Tower to the Sun
    • Transportation & Water
37. E. Bartlett Webster house (25th & F)
38. Carlsbad Hotel
39. Carlsbad by the Sea Hotel/Spa
40. South Pacific Hotel (Oceanside)
41. Hotel Balboa (Pacific Beach)
42. U.S. Grant Jr. House (site of El Cortez Hotel)
43. Overbaugh House
44. San Diego Barracks
45. San Diego County Courthouse (Broadway)
46. Bertha Mitchell House
47. Masonic Temple
48. Spreckels Bros. Commercial Company building (on the wharf)
49. Wonderland Park (Ocean Beach)
50. Mission Beach Casino, Bath House, and Amusement Center
51. Lost Theaters:
    • Broadway
    • Cabrillo
    • Casino
    • Fairmount
    • Garrick (Empress) (6th & B)
    • Guild
    • Lyceum/Hollywood
    • Orpheum/Pantages
    • Pickwick
    • Plaza
    • Savoy (3rd & G)
    • State
52. Horton Hall (5th & F)
53. Lost High Schools:
    • Hoover High
    • National City High School (Mission Style)
    • Point Loma High
54. Cardiff Santa Fe Depot
55. Balboa Stadium (mostly gone)
56. Aztec Bowl (mostly gone)
57. Sunset Cliff's Bridges and Huts
58. Capron House
59. Wilcox house
60. San Diego Union Building (6th & F, c. 1878)
61. Dispensary Building (4th, S. of Broadway)
62. Hotel Brewster (4th & C)
63. Golden Lion Tavern (5th, virtually destroyed by the Hard Rock Cafe)
64. Hardy Building (5th near G)
65. Phillips Building (5th)
66. Union Building (on Broadway, built by Spreckels)
67. Power Station A
68. Egyptian Theater
69. Hanalei Hotel (stripped of its Tiki charm)
70. Lane Field (San Diego's original downtown ballpark)
71. Los Banos Bath House (Irving Gill)
72. Bath House & Cafe (above La Jolla Cove)
73. Tyrolean Terrace (demo'd for Coast Walk Shopping Center, La Jolla)
74. Kew House (Greene & Greene)
75. La Mesa Congregational Church (Craftsman style)
76. Wangenheim House
77. Theosophical Institute/Homestead/Temple (Point Loma)
78. Germania Hall
79. Downtown Carnegie Library
80. Mission Cliffs Garden Pavilion
81. Agnew Hospital/Sanitarium
82. St. Joseph's Sanitarium
83. Butterfield Stage Stations:
    • Carrizo
    • Palm Spring
    • San Felipe
84. Paradise Valley Sanitarium (National City)
85. Gordan/Clark House (National City)
86. Ralph Granger House (National City)
87. Warren Kimball Estate (National City)
88. Statford Inn (Del Mar)
89. Arguello Adobe La Punta
90. San Diego Presidio
91. Park La Jolla Hotel
92. Lakeside Inn
93. Cliff House (Ocean Beach)
94. Manual Cota Adobe (Pauma Valley)
95. Sparkman Trading, Post Rincon
96. San Diego Mission Quadrangle
97. San Diego and Cuyamaca Depot Downtown
98. Old Mission Olive Works (Old Town)
99. San Diego Brewery
100. Hotel San Diego

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  By Bruce Coons
• President's Message Hope Springs Eternal
  By Beth Montes
• A Cultural Landscape The Caltrans Site of Old Town
  By Victor Walsh
• Economics, Sustainability & Historic Preservation
  By Donovan Rypkema
• The Turquoise House
  By Wayne Harmon
• A Most Appalling Display
  By Sandé Lollis
• 100 Lost Buildings in San Diego
• 2006 Most Endangered List
• 2006 People In Preservation Winners
• PIP An Evening of Celebration
• Chorus Breviarii at the Adobe Chapel
  By Dean Glass
• Ramona's Real Marriage Place Can Now be Your Marriage Place Too
• Whaley House Featured in Museum Showcase
  By William Doyle
• Our New Intern
• Volunteer & Staff Appreciation
• Youth Volunteer Docent Program at SOHO
  By Dean Glass
• Letters to SOHO
• From One Famous Mansion to Another
• Remembering the Overbaugh Mansion
  By Rurik Kallis
• In Memoriam: Pat Schaelchlin
• Correction
• Do we have your current email address?
• Would you like your home to be considered for a SOHO Home Tour?
• Lost San Diego

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