Hotel del Coronado | |
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Hotel del Coronado from the beach, 2011
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General information | |
Location | United States |
Address | 1500 Orange Avenue Coronado, California |
Coordinates | 32°40′51″N 117°10′42″W / 32.6809°N 117.1784°WCoordinates: 32°40′51″N 117°10′42″W / 32.6809°N 117.1784°W |
Opening | 1888 |
Owner | The Blackstone Group (sale pending) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 7 |
Design and construction | |
Architect | Reid & Reid |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 680 |
Number of suites | Junior Suites Victorian Suites Signature Suite Resort Suites Beach Village cottages Beach Village villas |
Number of restaurants | 7 |
Website | |
Hotel del Coronado
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Architectural style | Late Victorian, Queen Anne |
NRHP Reference # | 71000181 |
CHISL # | 844 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | October 14, 1971 |
Designated NHL | May 5, 1977 |
Designated CHISL | 1970 |
Hotel del Coronado (also known as The Del and Hotel Del) is a historic beachfront hotel in the city of Coronado, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. It is one of the few surviving examples of an American architectural genre: the wooden Victorian beach resort. It is the second largest wooden structure in the United States (after the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon) and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977 and a California Historical Landmark in 1970.
When it opened in 1888, it was the largest resort hotel in the world. It has hosted presidents, royalty, and celebrities through the years. The hotel has been featured in numerous movies and books.
The hotel received a Four Diamond rating from the American Automobile Association and was once listed by USA Today as one of the top ten resorts in the world, though it has since been removed from that list.
In the mid-1880s, the San Diego region was in the midst of one of its first real estate booms. At that time, it was common for a developer to build a grand hotel as a draw for what would otherwise be a barren landscape. The Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, California, the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, and the Hotel Redondo in Redondo Beach, California, were similar grand hotels built as development enticements during this era.