Petrone holds the unusual title of “heritage manager” at San Diego’s landmark Hotel del Coronado, and she and I are standing in the long driveway that leads up to the vast Queen Anne Victorian pile, whose distinctive ivory shingles and terracotta-red turrets captivate every arriving guest. A gilded plaque hints at the Del’s architectural significance, calling it “one of America’s largest wooden buildings” and among the “few seaside resort hotels of this style remaining in America.
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