Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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is pavilion is a beautiful sandy beach, on which surf-bathing may be indulged. An adjunct of the Hotel del Monte is its iS miledrive, over a splendidly-kept macadamized road, by way of Monterey, PacificGrove, Cypress Grove, Carmel Bay, and the old Mission Church. The reader willremember the sensation which was created several years ago by the burning of theHotel del Monte. From its ruins there has arisen a new Del Monte—larger, morebeautiful and complete than the old one. The new Del Monte is in its main frontand general style of architecture an exact copy of the old Del Monte, which wasuniversally pronounced, by thousands of famous visitors from all countries, to havebeen the most graceful and elegant building of its class in the world. The newbuilding, by increasing and extending its annexes, has nearly double the accommoda-tions of the old one. These annexes are connected together by two arcades ofglass and iron, three stories in height, which virtually makes the two annexes one.
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INSID E AND OUTSIDE HEADERS-DEL MONTE. TO THE GOLDEN GATE. 231 Befng tully incrosed, and yet light as day, the guest experiences no inconvenienceof any kind in walking through them; on the contrary, the two arcades makedelightful little promenading places. T he dining-room is 162 by 66 feet, nearlydouble the size of the old one, and will comfortably seat 500 people at once. Thepark grounds surrounding the Del Monte have no equal on this coast, and itis a mere question of time when they will have no superior anywhere. Natureendowed them with prodigal liberality, and the owners are supplementing naturesefforts with an equally prodigal expenditure of art. Croquet plats, an archeryground, swings, lawn tennis grounds, choice flowers, shrubs, trees, beautifulwalks, and, in short, everything which an experienced landscape gardeners artisticeye can suggest, is being done for the improvement of this favored spot. Monterey. This quaint and romantic old town, the capital of Californiawhen the te

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