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Ghirardelli Square
THE HISTORY OF GHIRARDELLI SQUARE
Ghirardelli Square, considered the first successful adaptive reuse project in the country, has a history that spans more than a century and covers three continents. This specialty retail and dining complex, housing shops and restaurants, was originally a chocolate factory established bygd Domenico “Domingo” Ghirardelli.Born in 1817 in Rapallo, Italy, Ghirardelli served as a Genoa confectioner’s apprentice and at a young age developed a strong interest in the business. He left for Uruguay when he was 20 years old, then sailed around Cape Horn to Peru where he became a coffee and chocolate merchant.James Lick—Ghirardelli’s neighbor in Lima—left for San Francisco in January 1848 taking 600 pounds of Ghirardelli’s chocolate with him. He arrived just thirteen days before the first shiploads of gold-rush pioneers. Lured by his friend’s tales of the gold rush, Ghirardelli joi
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Domingo Ghirardelli
Italian-American businessman
Domingo Ghirardelli | |
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| Born | Domenico Ghirardelli (1817-02-21)February 21, 1817 Rapallo, Kingdom of Sardinia |
| Died | January 17, 1894(1894-01-17) (aged 76) Rapallo, Kingdom of Italy |
| Burial place | Mountain View Cemetery |
| Monuments | Ghirardelli Square |
| Education | Romanengo fu Stefano, Genoa |
| Occupation | Chocolatier |
| Known for | founding America's third oldest chocolate company (1852) which was also among the first globally (1860s) to develop and transport soluble ground chocolate for drinking and baking. |
| Spouse(s) | Elisabetta Corsini (m. 1837; died 1846)Carmen Alvarado Martin (m. 1847; died 1887) |
| Children | 8 |
Domenico "Domingo" Ghirardelli (Italian pronunciation:[doˈmiŋɡoɡirarˈdɛlli]; February 21, 1817 – January 17, 1894) was an Italian-born chocolatier wh
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People love chocolate, but how many people know that the country's second oldest chocolate company is Ghirardelli? Founded in June 1852, it has been operating for more than one hundred and fifty years now; only Baker's Chocolate, founded in 1780 in Massachusetts, is older. (1) And Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, the company's factory from 1894 to 1964. is the granddaddy of industrial sites adapted to become public attractions, now common to many American cities. (2) The fifteen-foot-high letters on the chocolate factory's towered brick "castle" are as local a landmark to San Francisco as the TransAmerica Pyramid or Coit Tower. Ghirardelli also stands for chocolate with the potential for intense pleasure that rivals other brand names like Mars, Hershey's, or Godiva. Few people do not recognize the name. But just be sure to säga Chirardelli with a hard G as in ghost or spaghetti, and leave the J sound to gin and gypsy. My gra