C. 1900 HOTEL DEL MONTE RESORT MONTEREY COUNTY CALIFORNIA PEBBLE BEACH BOOKLET Hotel

C. 1900 HOTEL DEL MONTE RESORT MONTEREY COUNTY CALIFORNIA PEBBLE BEACH BOOKLET Hotel
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Бренд: Hotel
~ 4 167 ₽ 45.00 $

Характеристики

Type of Advertising BROCHURE / PAMPHLET
Date of Creation CIRCA 1900
Original/Reproduction Original

CIRCA 1900 HOTEL DEL MONTE RESORT MONTEREY COUNTY CALIFORNIA PEBBLE BEACH BOOKLET

DESCRIPTION:  Original; Circa 1900’s; Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California [booklet]; 24 pages; It measures approximately 5-1/2 inches tall by 7 inches long; the pamphlet was “Designed and Engraved by the Sunset Photo – Eng. Co, Printed by the Sunset Press, San Francisco” [California].  Geo. W. Reynolds, Manager.
               This beautifully designed pamphlet / brochure used Art Nouveau borders around the pictures to give a visual appearance of quality for which the hotel was known. There are over 40 photographic images of the hotel and the surroundings, including golf / golfing, polo, tennis, etc.

DATE: Circa 1900 estimated by the lack of automobiles [horses and carriages only] pictured and the Art Nouveau design elements of the cover and pages.

CONDITION: Fine [see scans].

HISTORY: The Hotel Del Monte was a large resort hotel in Monterey, California from its opening in 1880 until 1942. It was one of the finest luxury hotels in North America. During World War II, it closed and the building was leased to the Navy. It was first used by the Navy as a school where enlisted men spent the second, third, and fourth months of an eleven-month course being trained as electronic technicians.
              
Later the Hotel Del Monte became the Naval Postgraduate School of the United States Navy. It is now known as Herrmann Hall and functions as administrative offices and hotel for the school.
              
Charles Crocker, one of California's Big Four railroad barons, established the resort through Southern Pacific Railroad's property division, Pacific Improvement Company, and opened the first hotel June 10, 1880. The first true resort complex in the United States[citation needed], it was an immediate success. Nearby, along Monterey Bay, was a railroad depot.
               The property extended south and southeast of the hotel and included gardens, parkland, polo grounds, a race track, and a golf course. Originally used for hunting and other outdoor activities, the hotel's property became Pebble Beach, an unincorporated resort community, and the world famous Pebble Beach Golf Links. The famous 17-Mile Drive was originally designed as a local excursion for visitors to the Del Monte to take in the historic sights of Monterey and Pacific Grove and the scenery of what would become Pebble Beach.  
The hotel became popular with the wealthy and influential of the day, and guests included Theodore Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway, as well as many early Hollywood stars.
              
On February 27, 1919 Samuel Finley Brown Morse formed the Del Monte Properties Company, and acquired the extensive holdings of the Pacific Improvement Company, which included the Del Monte Forest, the Del Monte Lodge (since renamed the Lodge at Pebble Beach), and the Hotel Del Monte.
               There have been three buildings on the same site. The first building was designed by architect Arthur Brown, Sr., who had been the Southern Pacific Railroad's Superintendent of Bridges and Buildings. It was destroyed by fire on June 1, 1887 and was replaced. Two guests were killed and the hotel damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. On October 28, 1924, the second Hotel Del Monte building was destroyed by fire.  The current building dates from 1926. It was designed by architects Lewis P. Hobart and Clarence A. Tantau. The Hotel’s famed Art Gallery, which was established in 1907 and quickly became the venue for California's most prestigious artists, was also rebuilt; according to the detailed eyewitness account of Carmel artist Jennie V. Cannon, the space for exhibiting art was expanded.
 
               The Old Del Monte golf course opened in 1897 and is the oldest continuously operating golf course west of the Mississippi River.

SHIPPING: All paper items that are 1/4 of an inch thick or less are shipped between two double-walled pieces of cardboard [equal to 4 sheets of cardboard and virtually impossible to bend] by Media mail and at actual cost [unless other arrangements have been made with seller].