Fairmont San Francisco
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| Location | United States |
| Address | 950 Mason Street San Francisco, California |
| Hotel chain | Fairmont Hotels and Resorts |
| Coordinates | 37°47′33″N 122°24′37″W / 37.7924°N 122.4102°WCoordinates: 37°47′33″N 122°24′37″W / 37.7924°N 122.4102°W |
| Opening date | Main: 1907 Tower: 1962 |
| Architect | James W. and Merritt J. Reid Ira Wilson Hoover Julia Morgan |
| Rooms | 591 |
| Suites | >11 |
| Restaurants | Caffé Cento Laurel Court Restaurant and Bar Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar |
| Floors | Main: 9 Tower: 29 |
| Total height | Tower: 99.06 m (325.0 ft) |
| Website | www.fairmont.com/sanfrancisco |
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| Architectural style: | Beaux-Arts |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 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 honor.[5] The hotel was the vanguard of the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. The group is now owned by Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, but all the original Fairmont hotels still keep their names.
It has been featured in many films, including Petulia and The Rock. Exterior and interior shots of the hotel 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]
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[edit] 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 of her then-innovative use of reinforced concrete, which could produce buildings capable of withstanding earthquakes and other disasters.
[edit] United Nations
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]
[edit] 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]
- Views of the Fairmont lobby
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[edit] References
- ^ Fairmont San Francisco at Emporis
- ^ Fairmont San Francisco Tower at Emporis
- ^ Fairmont San Francisco at SkyscraperPage
- ^ Fairmont San Francisco at Structurae
- ^ Woodbridge, Sally B.; Woodbridge, John M. (1992). San Francisco Architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. pp. 62. ISBN 0-87701-897-9.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://www.nps.gov/nr/. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ "Charter of the United Nations - Photo Resources". United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law. http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/ha/cun/cun_photo.html. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
- ^ Craig, Christopher; Elan Penn (2006). San Francisco: A Pictorial Celebration. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. p. 48. ISBN 9781402723889. 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. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
- ^ Samara Diapoulos (23 August 2009). "Moments in History". The Fairmont San Francisco. http://www.fairmont.com/sanfrancisco/articles/referencematerial/momentsinhistory.htm. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
- ^ Jesse McKinley (April 3, 2009). "Order a Mai Tai and Save Paradise". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/fashion/05tonga.html?_r=1&sq=Tonga%20Room&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1239148998-kpKIJA0iS68aMaVKbRR3fg. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ John King (Tuesday, September 8, 2009). "The Tonga Room a Landmark? Not So Fast". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/08/DDNA19I8BE.DTL. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
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- Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
- Hotels established in 1907
- Landmarks in San Francisco, California
- National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco, California
- Hotels on the National Register of Historic Places in California
- Skyscraper hotels in San Francisco, California
- Skyscrapers between 50 and 99 meters
- Reid & Reid buildings
- Visitor attractions in San Francisco, California
