Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant
In 2010, restorations and added fine dining restaurants revived the hotel to its 1870s charm, making it again a focal point of the original downtown area.The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant were originally built between 1827 and 1829[2] as a one floor Spanish colonial style home for cattle rancher Don Juan Bandini.In the 1850s Bandini sold his home, and by 1869 it was restored and extended with a second floor into a stagecoach stop and hotel under the direction of Albert Seeley.[4][5][6][7] Don Juan Bandini built his single-story, thatched roof adobe between 1827 and 1829 on Old Town, San Diego, plaza's southeast corner.During the 1840s, he added several enhancements such as pane-glass windows, a brick-lined patio with a well, and a small, bathhouse to entice his daughters to visit his wife Refugio and him more frequently.