By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks On Dec. 23,1869, John D. Backesto purchased lots A – L of Block 95/88 from...

By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks America has always been the land of immigrants and opportunity. This was especially true during...

By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks To say that the Hotel Lester building has an ethnically-varied and colorful past would be...

By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks When Alonzo Horton arrived in San Diego in 1867, he purchased what we now know...

By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks As lead tour guide and historian for the Davis-Horton House Museum, I often wondered how...

By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks On June 15, 1850, all portions of the city of San Diego Pueblo Lot 1156,...

By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks When Alonzo Horton arrived in San Diego in 1867, he did what any newcomer would...

By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks On Dec. 23, 1867, Dr. John Pierre Backesto bought himself a Christmas present: a large...

By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks In late 1869, Alonzo Horton sold lots J and K between H Street (now Market...

By Sandee Wilhoit | Gaslamp Landmarks As one strolls through the Gaslamp, most notice that although each building has its...