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Photo Details

'4119 Hotel del Coronado - White and Gold Drawing Room - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'4183 Reading and Chess Rooms, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'4192 Bar-room, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'4106 Hotel del Coronado - Office - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'B 4291 Hotel del Coronado - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'B 4291 Hotel del Coronado - Bridal Chamber - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., [cropped]'

‘1757’

‘2314’

'1694' [twice]

? ‘1486’

embossed: 'Bedford Lewers & Co / 141, Strand, London'

-

‘2279’

‘51’

'51'

'5053 / J.W. Taylor, Chi'

'1450'

‘1869’

-

‘1873’

Inscriptions

obv: 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'America'rev: -

obv: 'No 3' 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'America' rev: 'Ravenswood Ill / J. C. Cochran Arch'

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'Ohio' rev: 'Ohio / Churly[?] + Clay'

embossed: 'Bedford Lewers & Co / 141, Strand, London'

obv: 'Milwaukee' rev: -

obv: 'Omaha' rev: 'Omaha Nev, [sic] / By Mendelsohne + Fisher'

obv: 'Kansas City USA' [sic]rev: 'Kansas City'

7 storey building, labelled 'Borden Block'.

obv: 'Baltimore' rev: 'Baltimore'

obv: 'St Paul USA' rev: 'Hodgson St[...] / St Paul / Minn'

obv: 'Minneapolis USA' rev: 'Minneapolis / Buffington'

obv: 'St Paul USA' rev: 'St Paul / Flanders Ar'

obv: 'Lumber exchange Minn.' rev: 'Minneapolis / Minn / Long + Kees'

Identification and Refs

San Diego, California: Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, by Reid & Reid (mainly James W Reid), 1887-8 [Smith (3), pp 148-9] Credited with introducing the steel frame to the West Coast [Barrett, ref Architect and Engineer of California,November 1910, p 37]

Hotel del Coronado

Ravenswood, Illinois: All Saints Episcopal Church, 4550 N Hermitage Ave, by JC Cochran, 1883 [ref Payne, Sinkevitch, p 223]

?

Chicago: Kinsley Building, see no 27

London

Milwaukee: Michaud Block, 1885

Omaha, Nebraska OR Kansas City, Missouri

Chicago: Borden Block, West Randolph & Dearborn Sts, by Adler & Sullivan, 1879-80, demolished 1910 [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, pp 22, 46]

Baltimore: Hutzler Brothers building

Chicago: Home Insurance Building, La Salle & Adams Sts, by W L B Jenney 1892, dem 1931. Turak, William Le Baron Jenney, pp 237-263

Minneapolis: Boston block, by Buffington, 1881-6.

St Paul, by Flanders [could be John J Flanders, but that he doesn't seem to have been in private practice prior to Kilburn's visit].

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lumber Exchange, by Long & Kees

Content

Drawing room with white joinery and furniture.

View from one room to the next through a rectangular opening, both with panelled dados and coffered ceilings

Bar with a projecting polygonal corner, and a sort of baldacchino.

Double height room with lounge seating, upper balcony, counter at rear - presumably reception area.

External view with complex massing, about 6 storeys high, giant conical corner pavilion.

Insipid interior with triple arcade across.

Church interior with a Mayan arch section, ornamental frieze and pseudo-hammer beams below.

Interior of what looks like a legislative chamber, with deep coved and panelled ceiling, rich plaster ornament, raked upper gallery, two concentric semicircles of desks & seats.

Three storey brick row with shop windows at ground floor, canted oriel bays with domes, decorative banked chimneys on façade, central plate reading ';...WN', and 'Dr. Shaw' on one window.

Four storey building with stilted arches and intricate Islamic relief decoration. Adjoining building is G. Jochem's Post Office Exchange

Three storey medievalising building with mainly Gothic arches and a central tower. friezes at gable height seem to show occupations, suggesting that this is an educational building

Three storey block with central entrance and flanking shops at ground floor, elegant sub-Romanesque detailing, labels '1885', 'Michaud Block'

Four storey block in rock-faced sub-Romanesque. Adjoining property is '... Notion Company. 405'

7 storey building, labelled 'Borden Block'.

5 storey Byzantine-Romanesque building, with a Moresque central arch, labelled 'Hutzler Brothers'.

Home Insurance building.

6 storey plus mansard corner block with pyramidal pavilion roofs at corners, labelled '1881' and 'Boston Block', apparently not quite complete, and with 'Buffington / Architect' across three windows.

modest 3 st block with a ground floor shop and at the top floor a shingle-hung cantilevered window bay.

10 st rock-faced block, labelled 'Lumber Exchange'.

Architects

Reid & Reid [partnership 1889-1932 of James M Reid (1851-1943) & Merritt J Reid (d 1932)] [Witheys, p 500].

F L Charnley OR Charnley & Clay [William Clay] [Lowe, p 188]

Adler & Sullivan [Dankmar Adler (1844-1900) & Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924)]

William le Baron Jenney (1832-1907) Chicago [Randall, pp 27-8 & passim; Witheys, pp 324-5; Condit, 'Jenney'; Turak, William Le Baron Jenney]

John J Flanders (1847-1914) St Paul, Minnesota [Witheys, p 213]

Long & Kees [Franklin B Long (1842-1913) & Frederick Kees (1852- [?])] [Smith, Plains States and Far West,p 379].