Costella, John and Delfina

John and Delphina Costella (1846-1926), natives of Italy, were perhaps the earliest Santa Cruz County-resident members of the Costella family. They established the Garibaldi Hotel on Front Street and, after it burned in the 1894 fire, the Garibaldi Villa Hotel.

• History Pages: 55 - The Big Fire of 1894
• John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Five, item (56), page 168