Pickwick Theatre
1029 Fourth Avenue,
San Diego,
CA
92101
1029 Fourth Avenue,
San Diego,
CA
92101
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Grand opening ad posted.
Irving Gill worked for Adler & Sullivan, Chicago (c1892) on Louis Sullivan’s famous Transportation Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The most memorable feature of that building was the great gold arch at the entrance. The façade of the Pickwick is an imitation of that great arch. Sullivan was the primary influence on Gill’s work and thought on architecture. Occasionally he resorted to direct quotation from Sullivan but later these influences evolved into Gill’s own, original language and philosophy of architecture.
Apparently Louis J. Wilde was responsible for building the Pickwick.
Later he became mayor of San Diego.
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Was the Gill of “Hebbard and Gill” Irving Gill?
The facade of this building was very Sullivanesque.