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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

2006 - Volume 37, Issue 2

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