The Hotel Del Coronado is famous for its red roof, which sits between San Diego and the Pacific Ocean.
When construction workers peeled away a section of old ceiling in the entryway of the Ocean Ballroom at the Hotel Del Coronado a few years ago, they spotted what looked like old wallpaper underneath. Pastel flower blooms spread across a blue background, ringed by decorative vines. When hotel historian Gina Petrone was called in to eyeball the exposed flowers, she immediately recognized that she was looking at a hand-painted fresco, painted on the ceiling as much as a century before.
It took more than six years to renovate the
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