El edificio Steele<\/p>\n
Por Sandee Wilhoit<\/p>\n
The Steele Building or Block is significant not only because of its early development, but because of the notable personalities associated with the financing and construction on this parcel. There is evidence that a small wooden structure was on the property as early as 182<\/p>\n
24, even before the Horton era. Financier and merchant, George Hazzard and notable architects, William Lacey (I.O.O.F. Building and the Horton House Hotel) and Edmond Blachmann, architect of the current structure, were later associated with the property.<\/p>\n
En 1873, ocurri\u00f3 la primera de tres transacciones importantes que involucraron a Hazzard cuando George Hazzard y su socio, James Gordon, compraron la propiedad. El San Diego Union declar\u00f3 que el d\u00fao planeaba construir \u201cun edificio sustancial\u201d para dividirlo en dos \u00e1reas de tiendas. La estructura de ladrillo de un piso fue dise\u00f1ada por William Lacey. El edificio se consider\u00f3 completamente a prueba de incendios y un buen almac\u00e9n para mercanc\u00edas en general. El interior tambi\u00e9n era de \u201cprimera clase\u201d con elegantes acabados interiores. Tanto Hazzard como Gordon estaban involucrados en comercializaci\u00f3n, bienes ra\u00edces, miner\u00eda y servicios p\u00fablicos (gas y agua). Ambos eran considerados residentes antiguos y muy estimados de San Diego.<\/p>\n
En 1881, Hazzard y Gordon vendieron su negocio, pero conservaron la propiedad de la propiedad. A trav\u00e9s de una serie de transacciones de tierras, Hazzard era due\u00f1o de toda la parcela en 1885 y continu\u00f3 arrendando los edificios de la propiedad a varios comerciantes.<\/p>\n
La fecha m\u00e1s significativa en la historia de esta propiedad ocurri\u00f3 el 6 de julio de 1906, cuando George Hazzard vendi\u00f3 la totalidad de su propiedad a Charles M. Steele. \u00a1Al d\u00eda siguiente, el San Diego Union anunci\u00f3 que Steele, un hombre de negocios de Los \u00c1ngeles, planeaba construir una tienda departamental de 5 pisos para completarla lo antes posible! Steele quer\u00eda que la nueva estructura se pareciera a otra propiedad de su empresa, Realty and Mercantile Company, ubicada en Los \u00c1ngeles. Con esto en mente, contrat\u00f3 al arquitecto Edmond Blachmann y lo llev\u00f3 a Los \u00c1ngeles para ver el edificio que esperaba usar como modelo.<\/p>\n
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The building, completed in early 1908, was described as \u201calong the lines\u201d of the Los Angeles structure, and was a 4-story plus basement, 100 x 100 steel reinforced structure with fronts of double pressed brick. The bricks were imported from Los Angeles, and no explanation was given for the change in height. The other building materials were all furnished by local companies, with the exception being the Rockwood automatic sprinkler system brought from Seattle and the Otis elevator. W.P. Fuller provided the plate glass windows, the sashes and the brick doors with plate glass windows. The lumber was provided by both the San Diego and the Russ Lumber Companies, and Standard Iron Works provided the posts, beams and elevator plates. Brelin and Walker were subcontracted to do the interior plastering. The building was additionally equipped with sidewalk lights. General contractor, Morris Trepte, was hired to oversee the project ,and was paid the astronomical salary of $40,000.<\/p>\n
The square structure , influenced by the Chicago School of Architecture, had relatively minimal decoration. The facade was symmetrical and featured a centered entrance with an arch and framing motif, which swept upward from the first floor to the bottom of the third floor. Parapets with stringcourse molding separated the floors, adding a modest decorative touch. The ground floor featured large plate glass windows, with horizontal bands of windows above them and across the exterior. The same window treatment was carried out from the second through the fourth floors. The 6th Avenue entrance was accentuated by two large granite pilasters.<\/p>\n
El primer piso interior ten\u00eda una galer\u00eda tipo loft. Se presentaron ascensores el\u00e9ctricos, tanto de pasajeros como de carga, y la cabina del ascensor estaba ubicada en el techo. El s\u00f3tano y el primer y segundo piso sirvieron como alojamiento para 6th Street Store, propiedad de Steele y su socio, Gholson, que ofrec\u00eda ropa y productos secos. Adem\u00e1s, agregaron un sal\u00f3n de peluquer\u00eda y est\u00e9tica administrado por Ada M. Petrie. Los dos pisos superiores albergaban un hotel de estilo europeo.<\/p>\n
Steele y Gholson permanecieron hasta 1910, cuando George Hazzard y Elwyn B. Gould reemplazaron la tienda por una ferreter\u00eda. Despu\u00e9s de 1913, el Directorio de la ciudad no incluye ning\u00fan negocio, por lo que se supuso que era un almac\u00e9n. En 1930, el edificio alberg\u00f3 brevemente una tienda de muebles de segunda mano y, a fines de la d\u00e9cada de 1970, el primer piso fue ocupado por Art\u00edculos de cuero y armas de Krasne, y los tres pisos superiores albergaron la f\u00e1brica de ropa Alan John. A fines de la d\u00e9cada de 1980, MLK Partnership compr\u00f3 el edificio y lo renov\u00f3 para convertirlo en lofts para vivir y trabajar sobre tiendas minoristas. A lo largo de los a\u00f1os 90 y principios del siglo XXI, la planta baja estuvo ocupada por una serie de bares, todos los cuales nunca duraron mucho. El bar actual, The Smoking Gun, est\u00e1 cerrado debido a COVID, pero el Smoking Gun Coffee House adjunto permanece abierto para llevar y parece tener un buen negocio.<\/p>\n
Sandee is the Lead Tour Guide and Historian for the Gaslamp Quarter Historical Association.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Steele Building (1908) Southwest Corner of 6th and Market St. Architect: Edmond Blachmann Architectural Style: Victorian Commercial By Sandee Wilhoit The Steele Building or Block is significant not only because of its early development, but because of the notable personalities associated with the financing and construction on this parcel. There is evidence that a […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":242193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Built to last!","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}