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Ramona's Real Marriage PlaceCan Now Be Your Marriage Place Too In 1906, businessman and sugar magnate John D. Spreckels acquired the c. 1825 hacienda of Spanish aristocrat and important early San Diego citizen Don José Antonio de Estudillo and funded a restoration of the building that was supervised by architect Hazel W. Waterman. Operating under the name "Ramona's Marriage Place," it opened as a tourist attraction along Spreckel's streetcar line in 1910, and was influential in increasing the popularity of both Mission Revival architecture and the legend of "Ramona," a character from Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel of the same name. The only problem with that scenario is that in Jackson's novel, Ramona was married not in the Estudillo House, but at another building in Old Town, the Adobe Chapel.
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2006 - Volume 37, Issue 2MORE FROM THIS ISSUE 100 Lost Buildings in San Diego 2006 People In Preservation Winners Chorus Breviarii at the Adobe Chapel Volunteer & Staff Appreciation Youth Volunteer Docent Program at SOHO From One Famous Mansion to Another Remembering the Overbaugh Mansion Do we have your current email address? DOWNLOAD full magazine as pdf (11.7mb) |
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