San Diego Union Newspaper

Location: Next to Pedrorena-Altamirano House
2616 San Diego Avenue (approx. address)
Old Town State Historic Park, Old Town San Diego, CA (map)
Phone: (619) 220-5422
More info: : Website

Museum Highlights

This prefabricated wood-frame structure probably arrived from the East Coast by ship in 1851. The building was reassembled in Old Town.

In 1967, James S. Copley, the publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, had the building restored to look as it did in 1868 when the first edition of the newspaper came off the press. The interior represents a typical newsroom layout and editor’s office. The Washington hand press is the same model press that printed the first edition of the San Diego Union on October 10, 1868.