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Revision as of 23:49, 30 June 2011
Fairmont San Francisco | |
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Hotel chain | Fairmont Hotels and Resorts |
General information | |
Location | United States |
Address | 950 Mason Street San Francisco, California |
Coordinates | 37°47′33″N 122°24′37″W / 37.7924°N 122.4102°W |
Opening | Main: 1907 Tower: 1962 |
Height | Tower: 99.06 m (325.0 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | Main: 9 Tower: 29 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | James W. and Merritt J. Reid Ira Wilson Hoover Julia Morgan |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 591 |
Number of suites | >11 |
Number of restaurants | Caffé Cento Laurel Court Restaurant and Bar Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar |
Website | |
www.fairmont.com/sanfrancisco | |
Fairmont Hotel | |
Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
NRHP reference No. | 02000373 |
Added to NRHP | April 17, 2002 |
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The Fairmont San Francisco is a luxury hotel at 950 Mason Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The hotel was named after mining magnate and U.S. senator James Graham Fair (1831-1894), by his daughters Theresa Fair Oelrichs and Virginia Fair Vanderbilt who built the hotel in his honour.[5] The hotel is the original in the portfolio of the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and has been featured in many films, including Petulia and The Rock. Exterior images of the structure were used as stand-ins for the fictional St. Gregory Hotel in the 1983 television series, Hotel.
The Fairmont San Francisco was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#02000373) on 17 April 2002.[6]
1906 Earthquake
The hotel was nearly completed before the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Although the structure survived, the interior was heavily damaged by fire, and opening was delayed until 1907. Architect and engineer Julia Morgan was hired to repair the building because her then-innovative use of reinforced concrete produced buildings that could withstand earthquakes and other disasters.
United Nations Founded
In 1945, the Fairmont hosted international statesmen for meetings which culminated in the creation of the United Nations. [7][8] The United Nations Charter was drafted in the hotel's Garden Room and a plaque at the hotel memorializes the event. [9]
Tonga Room
Among its attractions is the Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar, a historic tiki bar dating from 1967. In January 2009, the Fairmont’s owners submitted plans for a condo conversion in an adjacent tower, which showed the space where the Tonga Room currently is but did not show the Tonga Room itself.[10] No construction is planned until at least 2012. Meanwhile, a group plans to file an application to make the Tonga Room an official San Francisco landmark.[11]
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References
- ^ Fairmont San Francisco at Emporis
- ^ Fairmont San Francisco Tower at Emporis
- ^ "Fairmont San Francisco". SkyscraperPage.
- ^ Fairmont San Francisco at Structurae
- ^ Woodbridge, Sally B. (1992). San Francisco Architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. p. 62. ISBN 0-87701-897-9.
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- ^ http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/ha/cun/cun_photo.html
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=-sFfmZeGwf4C&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=un+united+nations+fairmont+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=681RnrLBsU&sig=B7g70XQyKpL3IpMVFa210-uMNRU&hl=en&ei=wdp8TfmbMay00QHKl9iACg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ http://www.fairmont.com/sanfrancisco/articles/referencematerial/momentsinhistory.htm
- ^ Jesse McKinley (April 3, 2009). "Order a Mai Tai and Save Paradise". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ John King (Tuesday, September 8, 2009). "The Tonga Room a Landmark? Not So Fast". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
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