271 | Hotel del Coronado


1985 | Coronado, California


The Hotel del Coronado has been the centerpiece of the San Diego shoreline since its construction in 1888, old enough to have been photographed by William Henry Jackson. In its time, it was the world’s largest resort hotel, and today it holds the title of the second-largest wooden building in the United States.

But for this picture, l turned my back on all that; there’s always a place in my heart for vernacular architecture.