History San Diego returns with our focus on historical landmarks with a profile of Landmark #2 in our series Casa de Bandini in Old Town San Diego. Learn about the Bandini home with a unique construction of adobe brick originally with a wooden second floor added around 1869, and the amazing life of one of “The Dons of San Diego”: Don Juan Bandini George presents you the best of Casa de Bandini over the years as it grew to become The Cosmopolitan Hotel, a stagecoach office and stop, an olive factory, a boarding house, a hotel and then- renovated by the State of California to be a Mexican Restaurant and later to be renovated again to be rebranded The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant in operation as of May, 2023. Enjoy George’s film of Old Town San Diego as it was on the morning of Saturday, May 13, 2023 HSD Note: History San Diego Landmark Profile #2 5/13/23