Beautiful property that should be sold to the City of Coronado and made into a historic home. Instead Arizona pharmaceutical moguls and real estate investment trusts buy this vaulted property and make the ghosts that live there and at the nearby Hotel Del Coronado angry. Therefore, the Spreckels mansion is thought to be haunted and full of negative vibes.
From the www.coronadobeachhouse.com website: The Spreckels mansion in Coronado is one of the most storied properties in the Crown City. The 12,751-square-foot property sits on nearly half an acre at 1043 Ocean Blvd. and commands a 115-foot unobstructed beach view. This is just what John D. Spreckels, who owned the nearby Hotel del Coronado and many other properties and businesses, had in mind. He lived in what is today the Glorietta Bay Inn less than a mile away, and the Ocean Boulevard home was to be his beach house. But in 1910, he gave it to his son Claus as a wedding present, and the younger Spreckels occupied it until his death in 1935. The house was sold several times after that.
The house was the site of the 1982 Designer Showcase house for the San Diego Historical Society and local chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. Four years later, George Wiley, now a retired investment counselor, bought the home for $1.3 million. The architect of the mansion also designed the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park and the Spreckels Theatre downtown. The Spreckels mansion incorporated Italian Renaissance and Beaux Arts styles. the website said that "the 27-room main house includes six bedrooms, 4- 1/2 baths, basement, attic and unfinished wine-storage room used during Prohibition. The northeast wing has a six-car garage and two apartments. A guest house, completed in 1928, contains two master bedroom suites, each decorated by an 18-inch fresco running around the perimeter of the room on the upper portion of the walls. One depicts San Diego historical scenes and the other, the French countryside."
For such a beautiful, storied home, there has been much recent heartache there. Here's hoping that this magnificent home that every one who goes to popular Coronado Beach passes by will overcome the bad publicity and bad karma that it accrued this past summer with the two mysterious mansion deaths that occurred there. read more