Yuma Building Circa 1970
Photo by Unknown, 1970
Yuma Building and Royal Academy Hair Design, 631-635 Fifth Avenue. Alfred Henry Wilson arrived in San Diego in 1849 as captain of the U.S. Invincible with an engineering crew to turn the San Diego River into False Bay (now Mission Bay). He commissioned the Italianate-Baroque Revival building from Armitage and Wilson Architects. Built in 1886, it became a brothel during the Stingaree era and was the first business closed during the Stingaree Raid of 1912. It is now retail on the ground floor and a residence above.