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build the Mansion. The building, designed with the simple, classic lines of Italian Renaissance, was complete in 1908 with six bedrooms, three baths, a parlor, dining room and library at the cost of $ 35,000. At that time, Spreckels' Mansion featured a brass cage elevator, a marble staircase with leather-padded handrails, skylights, marble floors and some of the Island's most spectacular gardens. The home was built with reinforced steel and concrete, an earthquake precaution Spreckels insisted upon after living through the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Spreckels lived in the Glorietta Boulevard mansion until his death in 1926. It is now a popular boutique hotel, the
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An evolution from previous streetcar models, the Class 1s were designed with artistry, state-of-the-art technology and San Diego's unique climate in mind. Under Spreckels' guise, the engineers of SDERy drafted up plans that took elements from both the "California Car" and the "Closed Car" designs and
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At its peak, the SDERy's routes would operate throughout greater San Diego over some 165 miles (266 kilometers) of track. And though the system had operated continuously for more than half a century, declining ridership (due in large part to the increasing usage of the automobile) ultimately led the
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Spreckels' first permanent residence in the San Diego area was the Spreckels Mansion, located at 1630 Glorietta Boulevard. The Mansion sat on five acres of land overlooking Glorietta Bay across from the Hotel del Coronado. In 1906, Spreckels, 53, contracted Architect Harrison Albright to design and
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In subsequent years, damage to the lines from heavy rainstorms, landslides, and fires took a financial toll on the railroad, as did border closings with Mexico. In 1932, financial difficulties forced Spreckels' heirs to sell their interests in the firm for $ 2.8 million to the
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to stock up on supplies. Impressed by the real estate boom then taking place, he invested in the construction of a wharf and coal bunkers at the foot of Broadway (then called "D" Street). That boom ended soon but Spreckels' interest in San Diego would last for the rest of his life.
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all served to push the construction completion to November 15, 1919, when the "golden spike" was finally driven by none other than Spreckels himself. Completing the SD&A was a monumental task that seriously affected Spreckels' health, almost costing him his life.
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system founded by Spreckels in 1892. Spreckels' strategy involved buying up several failed downtown horse- and cable-drawn trolley routes, consolidating and standardizing the trackage, and electrifying the resulting unified street railway system.
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American railroad, dubbed "The Impossible Railroad" by many engineers of its day due to the immense logistical challenges involved. Established in 1906 to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the
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Nolan, John Matthew "2,543 Days: A History of the Hotel at the Grand Rapids Dam on the Wabash River" Discusses Charles T. Hinde, one of the silent investors of the Hotel del Coronado and how the Hotel del Coronado influenced the
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Speckels was noted as one of the West Coast's "most prominent and enthusiastic automobilists." When California began requiring license plates in 1905, Spreckels acquired the first five plates for himself and his family.
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in Balboa Park to the people of San Diego just before the opening of the Exposition. Spreckels paid the salaries of a resident organ tuner and of the organist for many years, providing free daily organ concerts.
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Upon his death he was eulogized as "One of America's few great Empire Builders who invested millions to turn a struggling, bankrupt village into the beautiful and cosmopolitan city San Diego is today."
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In the next decades, Spreckels became a millionaire many times over, and the wealthiest man in San Diego. At various times he owned all of Coronado Island, the San Diego-Coronado Ferry System, the
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The total construction cost was approximately $ 18 million, or some $ 123,000 per mile; the original estimate was $ 6 million. Construction delays, attacks by
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The shipping and passenger line of this enterprise was the Oceanic Steamship Company, which was founded by J.D. Spreckels in 1881. Its inaugural service was between
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Over the years, the SDERy constructed new lines to connect San Diego's burgeoning downtown with the region's up-and-coming outlying communities, including
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SDERy double-decker Car No. 1 pauses at the intersection of 5th Street & Market Street in San Diego during its inaugural run on September 21, 1892.
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in 1912, the Hotel San Diego, and the Golden West Hotel. He employed thousands of people and at one time he paid 10% of all the property taxes in
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Spreckels was president of several companies, including the Oceanic Steamship Company, operating a mail and passenger line to Hawaii and
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Inside passenger list for departure from San Francisco, California, on July 26, 1899, of the Oceanic Steamship Co.'s iron steamer
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In 1880, with $ 2 million in capital, he organized J. D. Spreckels and Brothers, a company to establish a trade between the
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in San Diego, the first modern commercial playhouse west of the Mississippi. He gave generously to the fund to build the
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J.D. Spreckels drives the "golden spike" to ceremonially complete the San Diego and Arizona Railway on November 15, 1919
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would go on to provide a continuing public transportation service for the city of San Diego over the next 27 years.
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He acquired control of the Coronado Beach Company, the Hotel del Coronado and Coronado Tent City; he bought the
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Both Spreckels Elementary School in San Diego and Spreckels Park in Coronado, California, are named for him.
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One of Spreckels' major contributions to the city of San Diego was his commitment to the construction of
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Phillips, Morris "Abroad and at home:practical hints for tourists (Google eBook" Brentano's, 1891
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and the necessary pipeline to the city. The company was acquired by the City of San Diego.
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provided a 33-day direct mail service to Tahiti. In 1926 Oceanic became a subsidiary of
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The Ships List, which also details each ship’s tonnage and some of each ship’s history
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These streetcars were "retired" in 1939 to give way to the cheaper, Depression-era
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San Diego Historical Society San Diego Biographies: John D. Spreckels (1853–1926)
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refashioned them into a new, modern transit fleet. Their plans were sent to the
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In October 1877, John Diedrich Spreckels married Lillie Siebein (1855–1924) in
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American newspaper publisher, railway entrepreneur, philanthropist (1853–1926)
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and then in San Francisco. In 1887, Spreckels visited San Diego on his yacht
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John D. Spreckels built the beach house, located at 1043 Ocean Boulevard in
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in 1901. He moved his family permanently to San Diego immediately after the
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Passenger list for July 26, 1899, departure of the Oceanic Steamship Co.'s
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and the Hawaiian Islands. The company began with one sailing vessel, the
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until 1872. He returned to California and began working for his father,
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Spreckels contributed to the cultural life of the city by building the
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Part 5, Chapter 6: "John D. Spreckels Solves the Railroad Problem"
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In 1919, Spreckels completed the San Diego and Arizona Railway, a
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Class 1 Streetcar #125 at 5th and Broadway in San Diego, CA (1915)
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History | The Home of the Historic San Diego Class 1 Streetcars
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The San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy) was a San Diego–based,
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Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego
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The Home of the San Diego Historic Class 1 Streetcars
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Charleston, South Carolina
San Diego, California
Claus Spreckels
industrialist
Claus Spreckels
San Diego, California
entrepreneur
Hotel del Coronado
San Diego and Arizona Railway
Charleston, South Carolina
New York City
Oakland College
Polytechnic College
Hannover
Germany
chemistry
mechanical engineering
Claus Spreckels
sugar
Hawaiian Islands
Spreckels Sugar Company
mainland United States
sugarcane
plantations in Hawaii


California
Hawaii
Australia

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