Panama-California Exposition and, together with his brother Adolph B. Spreckels, donated the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park to the people of San Diego just before the opening of the Exposition. Spreckels paid the salaries of a resident organ tuner and of the organist for many years, providing free daily organ concerts. Both Spreckels Elementary School in San Diego and Spreckels Park in Coronado, California, are named for him. Notes References Biography. History | The Home of the Historic San Diego Class 1 Streetcars San Diego Historical Society San Diego Biographies: John D. Spreckels (1853–1926) — accessed September 6, 2005. , Part 5, Chapter 6: "John D. Spreckels Solves the Railroad Problem" , v. 2, pp. 5–8: "John D. Spreckels" Nolan, John Matthew "2,543 Days: A History of the Hotel at the Grand Rapids Dam on the Wabash River" Discusses Charles T. Hinde, one of the silent investors of the Hotel del Coronado and how the Hotel del Coronado influenced the Grand Rapids Hotel in Wabash County, Illinois. External links California AGHP — John D. Spreckels — History of the Inn and John D. Spreckels. The Home of the San Diego Historic Class 1 Streetcars "John D. Spreckels Solves the Railroad Problem" from The History of San Diego: 1542–1908 by William E. Smythe. "John D. Spreckels Lodge #657" Facebook page Spreckels Organ Society official website. Businesspeople from San Diego American real estate businesspeople American railway entrepreneurs 19th-century American railroad executives 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) American newspaper publishers (people) Philanthropists from California Businesspeople from Charleston, South Carolina Businesspeople from Hawaii 1853 births 1926 deaths History of San Diego The San Diego Union-Tribune people Burials at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park