The Gaslamp Quarter Archway spans Fifth Avenue as a six-ton steel gateway, illuminated by a combination of neon, incandescent, and fluorescent lights. Architects Harmon Nelson and David Ford conceived the design in nineteen eighty-six to…
Gaslamp Historic District
Walk past beautifully preserved Victorian-era buildings while hearing tales of the city's wild 19th-century saloon culture and the preservation movement that saved these blocks from demolition.
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1. Gaslamp Quarter Sign
2. Horton Grand Hotel
The Horton Grand Hotel features an ornate Italianate Victorian facade and wrought iron balconies. It is a construction of two separate nineteenth-century hotels combined into one. Originally located elsewhere in downtown San Diego, the…
3. Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton House
The Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton House is a saltbox structure characterized by its flat front, single-story rear, and a long roof that slopes toward the back. Built in eighteen-fifty in Maine, it was one of a dozen homes…
4. Yuma Building
The Yuma Building at six thirty-one Fifth Avenue is a three-story brick structure defined by its narrow Victorian facade, decorative pilasters, and two large bay windows that face the street. It was built by Captain Alfred Henry Wilcox,…
5. Keating Hotel By At Mine Hospitality
The Keating Hotel is a five-story Romanesque Revival building defined by its red brick facade and white accents. Completed in eighteen ninety-one, the structure was commissioned by Fannie Keating as a tribute to her late husband, George…
6. Balboa Theatre
The Balboa Theatre is distinguished by a unique tiled dome that rises above the street corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street. Built in nineteen twenty-four, this structure was designed by architect William Wheeler as a grand palace for…
7. Horton Plaza Historic Park
Horton Plaza Historic Park is defined by the Broadway Fountain, a centerpiece designed by Irving Gill and completed in nineteen ten. The fountain, modeled after the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, features a frieze inscribed…
8. Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building sits at the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Market Street. You can identify this brick structure by its Italian Renaissance style, which features Doric columns on the ground floor, arched…