711 A Ave, Coronado, San Diego, Tudor home an in depth look
For sale, For Rent, For Lease, Open for business, , this one-of-a kind, three story, 14000 sq.ft. home and registered landmark is less than a mile from the world-class destination Hotel Del Coronado resort in the City of Coronado, California. Offered for sale, no currency today could forge such an authentic and spectacularly crafted once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Originally drafted by noted architects William Hebbard and Irving Gill in 1898, the commission was to be a vacation getaway for a wealthy Standard Oil executive. The work eventually was completed in 1929 and, by then, it had become the Southern California retirement home of the former surgeon general of New York. Purchased again at auction in 1950, 711 A Avenue became the home to a family of stalwart ‘islanders’ dedicated to the small-town community of Coronado. The manor since has been the site of countless historical tours, social functions and picturesque garden weddings.
The grounds’ mature foliage shrouds the majestic design and quality construction of this exquisite example of Old English Country style architecture — all of it in the center of one romantic and idyllic beach town.
With its small-town Americana feel, Coronado is one of the most highly rated and coveted beach cities in California. 711 A Avenue is located only a few short blocks from the main artery of Coronado’s community heart, also known as ‘The Village’. Directly across the bay from metropolitan San Diego, life in this affluent resort town of less than 25,000 includes golfing at the renowned waterside course, sailing out of Glorietta Bay, surfing and sunbathing in the Pacific, as well as browsing the collection of small specialty shops and dining in the fine eateries along Orange Avenue. There are miles of walking and biking paths, and plenty of public park space and natural beauty. Add upscale cultural events, hometown pride and one of the most patriotic Independence Day parade displays around, it then becomes apparent why this tourist destination converts vacationers to residents with frequent regularity.
Whether a resident or a tourist, one immediately will notice the high and steep-pitched roof lines as well as the adobe and wood exterior walls of this impressive house. Features of this 30-room mansion include 9 bedrooms, 13 bath and powder rooms, a ballroom, and a walnut-paneled living room with a hidden doorway and private stairwell to the wine cellar. The reserved luxury of the formal dining room with a splendid fireplace promises another 100 years of memorable feasts. The caretaker suites and servant entries add to the functionality of the estate, as does the elevator and dumbwaiter. The original period appliances in the kitchen including the iceboxes and gas stove are updated, though they preserve a museum quality appearance. Beautifully styled gables and dormer windows provide ample light through the beveled glass, and architectural details like sterling silver electrical and bathroom fixtures, as well as the priceless Delft tiles that artistically frame one of the many fireplaces, should not be overlooked.
Inside, the marble-arched entry way welcomes visitors and ocean breezes alike. The floorplan here is a textbook case of an English country house layout. Chambers throughout include a study, an anteroom, sitting rooms, the library, the butler’s pantry and vestibules; and, mapping one’s initial orientation should begin with one of the more dramatic features — the grand wooden staircase. Each of its landings could be scenes from the famous Hearst Castle. Artistic archways and detailed handiwork seems to document one’s ascent from the large first-floor entry hall to the third-floor room with beautiful 18 x 20 inch wood beams adorned with Chinese graphics. Ornamental ceiling treatments and hidden doorways add to the awe. The master bedrooms on the second floor are all complete suites, and the rooftop Widow’s Walk offers 360-degree views including Glorietta Bay, downtown San Diego’s skyline, picturesque western sunsets, and the iconic red-roof shingles of the Hotel Del Coronado resort.
Sun rooms, covered balconies and porches overlook the green expanse of the estate’s park-like yard. The back patio terrace is ideal for outdoor socials, and its steps lead to dining and seating areas, as well as the pergola-covered path through the gardens across the lawn.
Coronado 2018: Walking to the Beach, Living the Dream
You may not know that the 2 worst months of weather in San Diego are arguably May and June. When you think of San Diego, I'm sure many of your think: Sun, Beach, Perfect Climate... etc.
Don't get me wrong, it IS a great place to live.
As you may have heard, You are able to be outdoors 90% of the year and its hardly Freezing Cold.
BUT, for two months a year, most mornings at the coast have a Marine Layer (a.k.a. FOG if you are from anywhere else on the planet) that hangs over the beaches and so we have what's called:
- May Gray &
- June Gloom
So, when there is a day in May where its 80 degrees before Noon, I take advantage. I still say that ambient temperature is a contributing factor to the level of disappointment someone may experience if they are susceptible to Seasonal Affective Disorder... I believe there is no coincidence its abbreviated SAD... yeh... indeed.
So, hope you enjoy our quick walk to the beach and a few selfies on the rocks in front of the Hotel Del Coronado (a.k.a. The 'Del)
Thanks for watching. Tell your friends! :-)
Best,
~mikes & Gracie
15 Minute Meditation Around the World: Coronado, California | How to Meditate| Guided Meditation
15 Minute Meditation Around the World: Coronado, California | How to Meditate| Guided Meditation
Welcome to Coronado! Make you sure check out the five main regions.
1) Bayside & the Ferry Landing- Near the bridge on the Bayside is the luxurious Coronado Marriott Resort, Coronado Ferry Landing with its galleries, boutique shops and great restaurants with exceptional views, and historic Centennial Park. At the east end of Orange Avenue, you’ll also find a number of specialty shops and dining opportunities and elegant condos overlooking the ever-changing views of the San Diego skyline and busy harbor.
2) Historic Downtown - Along Orange Avenue you will find historic Downtown, brimming with community life—a genuine “Main Street U.S.A.” Discover shopping; everything from surfboards to high-end jewelry and the latest fashions. You can find award-winning restaurants and sidewalk cafes, hotels and boutique inns, peaceful parks and the historic library. A favorite pastime is strolling the well maintained streets, window shopping, people watching and enjoying the lush gardens and tree-lined medians.
3) Beaches - Some of the world’s most desirable beaches can be found in Coronado. Dr. Beach ranked Coronado’s Central Beach as the #1 Beach in the United States in 2012. Parents Magazine also named Coronado in its Top 10 U.S. beaches. The miles of silvery sand, rich in mica, glimmer in the sun like diamonds. There are four main beaches — Central Beach, South Beach, Silver Strand State Beach and North Beach. These beaches connect into miles of sand and ocean.
4) Glorietta Bay - Glorietta Bay is found where Orange Avenue ends and The Silver Stand begins. The San Diego Bay is on one side of Orange Avenue and South Beach on the other. Yachts with billowing sails dot Glorietta Bay, framed by Glorietta Bay Park with its gentle swimming beach, the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, Coronado Municipal Golf Course, Coronado Tennis Center, Coronado Yacht Club, Bluewater Boathouse Seafood Grill, public marina and boat ramp, Coronado Municipal Pool,Community Center, Club Room & Boathouse — that are as nice as any country club — and Glorietta Bay Park. On the other side of Orange Avenue, stands the Coronado Shores condominium towers with million-dollar views of the beaches and bay. The Navy SEALs and Naval Amphibious Base.
5) Silver Strand - The Silver Strand is a peninsula that starts where Orange Avenue ends, extending south along State Route 75 past the award-winning Loews Coronado Bay Resort and Spa, Crown Cove Aquatics Center, the Navy’s Fiddlers Cove and Coronado Cays residential development. The paved pedestrian and bike path, part of the Bayshore Bikeway, stretches to the gorgeous state beach park and a nature sanctuary.
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DOVER Impulse Oildraulic Building 1 Elevator @ Loews Hotel, Coronado, CA
Pretty nice elevator. Cabs have been redone on these and there are new ThyssenKrupp capacity plates on the floor indicators. Installed also in 1993.
Ken Kramer Show: Ferryboat San Diego and Shipwreck Monte Carlo
San Diego's greatest historian and newsman is KPBS' Ken Kramer. His weekly television show, Ken Kramer's About San Diego, captures incredible pieces of history involving the secrets and jewels of San Diego County. These two segments air back to back beginning with a story on the Ferryboat San Diego and her demise (first aired May 31, 2012), followed by a segment on the shipwreck Monte Carlo, and an interview with 92-year-old Colonel Richard Kenney (first aired May 24, 2012). Thank you to Debbie Riddle and Lee Mather Co., Realtors and the Bruce Muirhead Family for funding the expedition to San Francisco to witness the final hours of the ferryboat San Diego. Incredible support was provided by representatives of the California State Lands Commission to gain access to the old ferryboat, to go aboard her and take photographs - Peter Pelkofer and Bryant Sturgess. Thank you too, to the Coronado Public Library, for their continued success in preserving and exhibiting Coronado history.
Milestone reached in building of bridge at UCSD
A new bridge to connect to the halves of the UC San Diego campus separated by I-5 is nearing completion.
Green Scene - Rebuilding San Diego Infrastructure with Mark Kersey
Rebuild San Diego -- Funding Infrastructure with Councilman Mark Kersey
Date: Tue, 04/19/2016 -
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Audience: Public
San Diego Green Scene:
Rebuilding San Diego's Infrastructure
with Councilman Mark Kersey
Tuesday April 19 6-8pm
Please join us!
San Diego has a multi-billion dollar backlog of infrastructure projects: sewers, sidewalks, parks, potholes and fire and police stations. We may live in America's Finest City -- but much of it is beginning to crumble under our feet due to lack of attention and funding.
Mark is committed to Rebuilding San Diego, making it a better place to live and do business. As chair of the Council's Infrastructure Committee, he is leading the charge to improve San Diego's deteriorating roads, sidewalks, storm drains, parks and libraries. His proposed June 2016 Rebuild San Diego ballot measure (PDF) would create a dedicated stream of funding for infrastructure and secure up to $4-5 billion over the next 30 years.
Tackling the Infrastructure Backlog
The City's backlog of infrastructure needs continue to increase, now at a staggering $1 billion plus price tag. Mark's leadership is helping create a better picture of the issue through the funding of never-before-done assessments of key assets like sidewalks and parks and recreation facilities that are helping us hone in on a more accurate number.
Completing a Multi-Year Capital plan through the development of the city's first-ever, multi-year capital plan, Mark is driving the City towards a comprehensive approach to acquiring, planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, renovating, and rehabilitating the City's infrastructure.
What will you learn?
Council member Mark Kersey was elected to represent the San Diego 5th District in 2012. His platform:
- rebuild San Diego's infrastructure
- keep San Diego's economy competitive
- invest in public safety
As Chair of the Council's Committee on Infrastructure, he is pursuing an ambitious workplan to reform the way the city evaluates, prioritizes, and invests in infrastructure. Since assuming office he has held infrastructure forums in every Council District in the City, successfully advocated for increased infrastructure investment in the FY15 budget and orchestrated the development of San Diego's first comprehensive Multi-Year Infrastructure Investment Plan.
Mark is also focused on utilizing technology to empower residents and streamline government. He introduced the City's first Open Data Initiative, which will make large quantities of City data available to the public in a convenient and usable format.
He also serves as the City of San Diego representative to the CA League of Cities.
Tuesday April 19
6-8pm
Join us for this unique policy perspective
World Resources Simulation Center
Location: 1088 Third Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
(SW corner of Third Ave & C Street
-- next to the Civic Center Trolley stop)
Free Parking at Horton Plaza (3 hours) plus all parking meters, green and yellow curbs free at 6pm
Recorded on Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
@SIMCenter wrsc.org
1088 Third St., San Diego, CA 92101
Venue available for rent - (619) 234-1088
Public Library: PSUGD Show & Tell lecture series.
Public-Library is a cross-disciplinary design studio in Los Angeles, California and Portland, Oregon. Founded in 2011 by Ramón Coronado and Marshall Rake as a space to create work that translates thought and intent into meaningful solutions.
Let’s welcome them to the Show & Tell floor this Thursday, March 5th at NOON in room 320.
Come and join us every Thursday at noon in room 320 (2000 SW 5th AVE) for our weekly Show & Tell Lecture. Talks are free and open to the public.
San Diego This Is My City
San Diego Natives listen closely to the soundtrack as you hear icons such as Jerry Coleman call the 1998 Padres win the National League Pennant and Marshal Faulk scoring a touchdown for SDSU. There are over 200 sounds of people walking, playing and multiple actives around this beautiful city. After hours of filming in multiple cameras, drones and even getting in a small plane, I would like to share my most intense and emotional project: “San Diego, This Is My City.” Just a short film displaying the great places and natural beauty our home has to offer.
#SanDiego #Travel #SDSU
Short Film by: Jerry Sosa
Places featured:
+ Mission San Diego de Alcalá:
+ Balboa Park:
+ The Mission San Diego:
+ Belmont Park:
+ Hotel Del Coronado:
+ USS Midway Museum: midway.org
+ Pulahan-Derobio Eskrima :
+ San Diego Public Library :
+ Torrey Pines Gliderport: flytorrey.com
+ UCSD Stuart Collection : stuartcollection.ucsd.edu
+ Barrio Logan: A Hidden Hub for Art
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NEW OTIS Series 2 HydroFit Elevator @ Walgreens, Coronado, CA
VERY NICE elevator!!! Installed in 2017.
In San Diego, About San Diego with Noah Tafolla (8min)
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Producer/Director Noah Tafolla will tell us how he tells us about ourselves. His productions include the locally syndicated shows Wonderland and Dining Out with Noah. Both programs shot and aired in San Diego. A third generation San Diegan, Noah explores San Diego heights and haunts with a personal touch. He'll talk about story, ideas, budgets, deadlines, and selling stories about us... to us.
Piano time sd central library
Piano jazz
DOVER Impulse Oildraulic Building 3 Elevator @ Loews Hotel, Coronado, CA
Identical to the building 1 and 2 ones. Installed also in 1993.
URBAN LEGEND. San Diego, CA
Summary:
This video is a documentary film for an Urban Sociology class, taught by Trevor Stine at NewSchool of Architecture & Design. It is attending housing issues in San Diego with the focus on population densification by rezoning single-family lots within the city to multi-dwelling units and mixed-use zones. This documentary focuses on current housing state with prognosticated growth of population of San Diego by one million in the next thirty years. The main idea of this urban study group film is to explore the possibility of accommodating residents in a more dense urban setting. The film involves discussion of the statistical data in regards to population, housing cost, sprawl of suburban areas, transportation issues, pros and cons of urban living as opposed to suburban living, and current zone regulations. Although the housing problem goes far beyond rezoning issues, our scope of research mainly focuses on possibilities of rezoning areas that once were a suburbia, but now they are part of the city. The film will elaborate on the steps of rezoning process, responsibilities of the developers and the city in regards to infrastructure, obstacles during rezoning and new buildings approval processes. All our findings relay to sociological concept of urban environment, that takes over suburban areas as the city expands. While it is evident that dense urban setting is beneficial in several aspects, sprawl of suburbia offers an alternative live style along with more affordable housing. In the conclusion it is stated that along with the urban sprawl rezoning of some developed land within the city can offer a solution to the housing crisis in San Diego.
MAJD NAZO - Video Editing / Film / Sound / Research
KUZMA NEFEDOV - Interview / Script / Voice Over / Film
BRADLEE BRACKEEN - Script / Research / Voice Over
WING MAN CHAN - Research / Voice Over
RONNIE GOMEZ - Research / Voice Over
VIDEO:
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- Courtesy of Joakim Karud
Creative Commons —Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0
Music promoted by Audio Library
Special thanks to:
STEVE MATLEY - Chair of Construction Management at NewSchool of Architecture and Design for the informal interview.
TREVOR STINE - Professor at NewSchool of Architecture and Design for initiating the discussion about housing shortage.
San Diego's NEW Central Library Viewing & Block Party
this event was on Saturday Sept. 28, 2013
SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY
GRUPO A1
Top Gun's Kelly McGillis makes rare appearance as filming for the sequel begins - US Daily News
Top Gun's Kelly McGillis makes rare appearance as filming for the sequel begins - US Daily News
Kelly McGillis,Top Gun /form Top Gun's leading lady Kelly McGillis was spotted near her home as the Top Gun sequel begins filming. Tom Cruise is back as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in the movie but Kelly will not return to Top Gun 2. The 60-year-old actress won hearts playing Charlie Blackwood in the 1986 original - and previously said she'd love to return. But Kelly has not travelled to the film set in San Diego, California along with her former cast mates. Instead, she spent her weekend volunteering at the First Congregational Church, near her rural home in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Since the hit movie, Kelly has given up acting in big Hollywood films and instead ran a bar in Key West, Florida. She also worked with drug addicts and alcoholics and taught aspiring actors her former craft before returning as a character actress in indie film projects. When asked in 2014 if she'd return as Charlie, she told the Independent : “Yeah, I’d cameo in it maybe!” Fans of the film will be pleased to hear Top Gun 2 will be arriving in cinemas on July 12, 2019 - 33 years after the original. The new film will be set in a world of drone technology and fifth generation fighters along with exploring the end of the era of dogfighting. The Mission Impossible star said recently the title would be Top Gun: Maverick. Maverick was Cruise's character's nickname in the film in which he played Naval aviator Lt. Pete Mitchell. The original film, directed by the late Tony Scott and set at the Navy's Fighter Weapons School at Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego, was a massive hit with more than $350 million in worldwide grosses. Val Kilmer, Tom Skeritt and Anthony Edwards also starred in the original, in which the protagonists flew the F14A Tomcat. Kilmer has said he'd like to return for the sequel in the role of Tom Iceman Kazanski. Cruise had been working with Tony Scott on the sequel before the director's demise in 2012. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected Top Gun for preservation in the National Film Registry as one of the 25 films named annually that are culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. Cruise met with potential directors for the Top Gun sequel last year prior to and while filming Mission: Impossible 6 in London. Oblivion was a success for Cruise and Kosinski, bringing in $286 million worldwide.
San Diego central library elevator
The awesome cage elevator. Going up!
Very nice Dover Impulse elevator at Loews Coronado Hotel & Resort
Millions approved for San Diego infrastructure repairs
The San Diego City Council on Monday approved a $35 million capital improvement program. The bond measure will improve three libraries, build a new fire station and upgrade the Mission Beach boardwalk, storm water systems and local roads.