Porch Detial of The Kirk House San Diego California

I gathered this image of the Historic Kirk House Hand Rail while visiting Sand Diego California in September of 2010. The Kirk House is a precious pale-gray pea...
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I gathered this image of the Historic Kirk House Hand Rail while visiting Sand Diego California in September of 2010. The Kirk House is a precious pale-gray pearl nestled between the Center for Christian Education and Kirk Cottage on the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church campus. The immaculately preserved three-story Victorian Queen Anne Revival-style 4,500-square-foot showpiece serves as a suite of handsome ground-floor offices for the church staff and spacious second and third-floor residence to the pastoral family. 2009 Historical Summary: In 1887, riverboat Captain Charles T. Hinde and his wife Eliza built their first home on C Avenue in Coronado. When fire destroyed much of the original structure in 1890, the Hindes commissioned James W. Reid and his brother Merritt Reid, architects of the world-famous Hotel del Coronado, to design a completely new Victorian Queen Anne structure around the original facade of the mansion. The design resulted, in part, from plans that Eliza Hinde suggested.

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