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Fairmont San Francisco



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 / 37.7924; -122.4102
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
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Architectural style	Beaux-Arts
NRHP reference No.	02000373
Added to NRHP	April 17, 2002

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. 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.

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. The United Nations Charter was drafted in the hotel's Garden Room and a plaque at the hotel memorializes the event.

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. 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.

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. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
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. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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