The Fairmont San Francisco is a luxury AAA Four-Diamond hotel at 950 Mason Street, above Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The hotel is named after the mining king and US Senator James Graham Fair (1831-94), by his daughter Theresa Fair Oelrichs and Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, who built the hotel in his honor. The hotel is a vanguard of the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. The group is now owned by Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, but all original Fairmont hotels still keep their name. Starting July 2014, room rates start at $ 409 per night.
It has been featured in many movies, including The Rock . The exterior and interior photos of the hotel are used as stand-in for the fictional St. Gregorius Hotel on the television series Hotel .
Fairmont San Francisco was added to the National Register of Historic Places (# 02000373) on April 17, 2002. It is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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1906 Gempa Bumi
The hotel was nearing completion before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Although the structure survived, the interior was heavily damaged by fire, and the opening was delayed until 1907. Architects and engineers Julia Morgan were hired to repair the building due to its innovative use of reinforced concrete, able to withstand earthquakes and other disasters.
Maps Fairmont San Francisco
The United Nations
In 1945, Fairmont hosted an international country for meetings that culminated in the establishment of the United Nations. Finessing the UN Charter was conducted in the Garden Room of the hotel and a plaque at the hotel memorialized the event.
The first concierge in the United States
The Fairmont is the first American hotel to offer concierge services. Tom Wolfe, who had been trained in Europe, served as Fairmont's first waitress from 1974 to 1981. He returned to Fairmont in 1995.
Tonga Room
Among the attractions of the hotel are the Tonga Room & amp; The Hurricane Bar, a historic tiki bar, opened in 1945 and renovated in 1952, and 1967. The bar element was also "updated" in 2009. It features a bandstand on a barge floating on a former swimming pool, eating areas that built from parts of old sailboats, and artificial lightning storms. In January 2009, the owners announced plans to close the Tonga Room in connection with the renovation and conversion of condotels. In response, a group plans to apply to make Tonga Room the official landmark of San Francisco. The plan was delayed and the Tonga Room is still open today (despite many rumors of temporary closure).
Ownership change
On May 9, 2012, the fund is managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. and Woodridge Capital Partners LLC, a Los Angeles-based real estate and investor developer, bought the property for $ 200 million. They acquired the Mark Hopkins Hotel across the street in 2014.
The hotel was sold again on November 30, 2015 to South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investment Group for $ 450 million.
Popular culture
The Venetian Room at the Fairmont Hotel was where Tony Bennett first sang "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in December 1961. The Tony Bennett statue was unveiled outside Fairmont on August 19, 2016, in honor of his 90th birthday, performances and history the song was with San Francisco.
The Fairmont Hotel is used in shooting for St. fiction Gregorius Hotel in the 1983 television series Hotel . The hotel that is the basis of the original novel now is The Roosevelt New Orleans.
- Fairmont lobby view
See also
- Famous Landmarks List of San Francisco
References
External links
- Fairmont San Francisco's official website
- The Tonga Room & amp; Hurricane Bar's official website
- List of National Historic Sites
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