Avalon Hotels

AVALON, SANTA CATALINA ISLAND HOTELS had been developed by the turn of the century, an outgrowth of tent camps and organized tent businesses such as Camp Swanfledt and Coronado Tent City. Some of the earliest hotels in order of construction included:

• Metropole (1888)
• Glenmore (1891)
• Catalina (1892-1915; 1916-current)
• Grand View (1892-1915+)
• Miramar (1892-1915)
• Sunset (1892)
• Glidden Flats (after 1893)
• Island Villa (1895)
• Stamford House (c. 1895)
• Bay View (c. 1898-1915)
• Avalon Inn (1899-current)
• Central (1903-1915)
• Pacific (pre-1903-1915)
• Hermosa (pre-1905-current)
• Del Mar (c. 1907-1915)

Many of the early hotels were destroyed by the Avalon fire of 1915.

» Avalon Inn; Bay View; Catalina House; Dew Drop Inn; Eddy’s Terrace; Glenmore; Grand View Hotel; Island Villa; Marilla Cottage; Metropole; Sea Beach Hotel

Catalina Island in 1907 (survived fire)

• Hotel Atwater » Atwater Hotel (Santa Catalina Island Company) (1920-+)
• Hotel Metropole (1888-1915) built by George Shatto » Metropole
• Hotel Rose
• Hotel Saint Catherine » Saint Catherine Hotel (1918-1966)
• Island Villa (1895-
• Las Casitas Bungalows
• Pavilion Lodge (1957- )

AVALON HOTELS 1916:

• Avalon Inn. 309 Beacon St. Developed from Avalon Cottage. Inn est. 1899-current.
• Bay View. 124 Whittley Ave. c. 1898-1915 fire.
• Catalina. 129 Whittley Ave. 1892-1915 fire; 1916-current First hotel rebuilt after the fire.
• Central. 1903-1915 fire.
• Del Mar. c. 1907-1915 fire.
• Glenmore. 118 Sumner Ave. 1891-escaped 1915 fire—YES; owner E. J. Whitney in 1917
• Glidden [Glidden Flats] after 1893-
• Grand View. 1892-1915 fire. -escaped 1915 fire
• Hermosa. Pre-1905-current.
• Metropole-entry
• Miramar. 1892-1915 fire.
• Pacific. Pre-1903 and destroyed by fire 1915.
• Stamford House. 125 Metropole. c. 1895-? Gone now.
• Sunset. 708 Crescent Ave. 1892-now the Catherine Hotel.

July 11, 1916 [TI/Avalon]: “The new Catalina Hotel was opened for public inspection several days ago. A large number took advantage of the opportunity to vire the interior of the first hotel to be erected since the fire. Proprietor Gill has been a resident of the island for 16 years, and he is to be congratulated on the rapidity of the work as well as for the excellent modern hotel that he has built…”