Colonel Fletcher Building

The Colonel Fletcher Building at 602–632 Broadway, in Core, San Diego, was the site of some of the retail history of San Diego.

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).

[2] Originally it was a two-story building housing the Barnett-Stine Co. department store.

Barnett-Stine went out of business in 1911 and Holzwasser's department store, opened in the building.

(Holzwasser's would go out of business in 1933 and the first Walker Scott store would open there.)

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