12/01/2023
Hotel del Coronado
A rare surviving example of an American architectural genre—the wooden Victorian beach resort—it was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970[4] and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.[3][5] It is the second-largest wooden structure in the United States (after the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon).
It Was the First Commercial Building Lit by Electricity
Thomas Edison came to the Hotel del Coronado shortly before it opened to oversee the installation of electric lighting. When everything was in place, The Del became the first commercial structure to be illuminated by electricity. On a related note, Edison returned in 1904 to debut the world’s first lighted Christmas tree, which stood on the hotel’s lawn.