The Coronado Historical Association And Museum of History & Art Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2010


2010


CALENDAR April 10


Lecture, Karl Zingheim,


“The Fall and Rise of Carrier Aviation: 1946-1956,” 2-4 p.m.


April 15


Board of Directors Meeting, 5:30 p.m.


May 2


Historic Home tour, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. June 25


Exhibit Opening: Bicycles and Bloomers: Women’s Emancipation and the Bicycle


many changes in the last few decades, but there are still intact areas of the community where one can easily imagine life here in the early part of the 20th


C century. Just


take a stroll down the north side of B Avenue between 7th


Coronado Historic Home Tour, visit The 1906 Lodge before 1:30 p.m., May 2 oronado


neighborhoods have seen


7th and 8th street on B


The Winchester Legacy homes to be toured on May 2 during the annual Coronado Historic Home Tour


and 8th streets. There you will find jasmine- covered picket fences in front of charming Craftsman bungalow cottages--one right after the other--with broad porches and rocking chairs, pepper trees in the parkway and little traffic.


Alfred and Peggy Liang, photo donated by Bob and Peggy Collins


This block is the epicenter of the Coronado Historical Association’s 2010 Historic Home Tour: The Winchester Legacy, on Sunday, May 2, 2010, featuring five historic homes and a newly renovated lodge, all within walking distance. The 2010 Historic Home Tour is sponsored in part by Lorton Mitchell Homes. That day between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., four of the homes located between


Avenue will be open, with the fifth one just around the block on C Avenue. All but one are Craftsman- era bungalows, developed and sold by a local entrepreneur between 1909 and 1911.


The Winchester name is important


to development in Coronado in the early 1900s. In 1908, after creating a successful South American coffee import business in Chicago and New York with his father, Frederick C. Winchester moved to Coronado with his wife and parents, perhaps for health reasons, since several family members later succumbed to tuberculosis. These new residents quickly embraced their new home and, with their wealth and social prestige, became involved in its civic and social life.


Within a short time, Frederick, in partnership with U.S. Congressman William Kettner (and later other partners), began


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CORONADO HOME TOUR


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