Colonel Fletcher Building

The Colonel Fletcher Building at 602–632 Broadway, in Downtown San Diego was the site of some of the retail history of San Diego. The building is at the northeast corner of 6th and Broadway; Broadway was originally named D Street.

Barnett-Stine Co. 6th and D (Broadway) San Diego est. 1910
The building shown in an ad by the new department store Holzwasser's, which acquired the assets of Barnett-Stine. May 30, 1911
Colonel Fletcher Building around 1920, housing a store of the Owl Drug Company

It was built by "Colonel" Ed Fletcher around 1906–1908[1] along with Frank Salmans, and designed by architect Edward Quayle of the Quayle Brothers (who would later do the 1935 renovation of the Walker Scott Building). It was remodeled around 2005 by Champion Development Group.[2]

Originally it was a two-story building housing the Barnett-Stine Co. department store.[3] Two more stories were added.

Barnett-Stine went out of business in 1911 and Holzwasser's department store, opened in the building.[4] In 1919, Holzwasser's moved to a new, larger building, now known as the Walker Scott Building. (Holzwasser's would go out of business in 1933 and the first Walker Scott store would open there.)

The Owl Drug Company was then located in the building.[1]

The building was renovated in 2008.

References
  1. "History", Colonel Fletcher Building website, accessed August 5, 2020
  2. CurtCo/SDM LLC (October 2005). San Diego Magazine. CurtCo/SDM LLC. p. 142. ISSN 0036-4045. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
  3. Photo of Barnett-Stine building, circa 1910. University of California, San Diego
  4. Advertisement for Holzwasser's Department Store, San Diego Union, May 30, 1911

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