Westin St Francis Hotel
- Address: 335 Powell St
- Vicinity: Union Square
- Neighborhood of Downtown SF in San Francisco
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
Bliss and Faville | Architect | |||||
1921/09/05 | Virginia Rappe | Victim | During a boozy party, actress Virginia Rappe is possibly assaulted in Fatty Arbuckle's bedroom, Suite 1219 in the St Francis. | Trials of Roscoe Arbuckle | ||
1921/09/05 | Roscoe Arbuckle | Defendant | During a boozy party, actress Virginia Rappe is possibly assaulted in Fatty Arbuckle's bedroom, Suite 1219 in the St Francis. | Trials of Roscoe Arbuckle | ||
1924/00/00 | ||||||
1956/12/28 | Truman Capote | Life | In San Francisco, as Truman Capote gets into the elevator at the St Francis Hotel the steel doors go haywire and clamp into his head leaving his face blue, green, puce and mau-mau black and his left eye swollen shut. | Truman Capote Profiles Marlon Brando | ||
1979/00/00 |
Particulars for Westin St Francis Hotel: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Area of Significance | Community Planning and Development |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Historic Use | Hotel |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Specialty Store |
Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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Burning Daylight | Book | Jack London | He settled down in St. Francis Hotel, was interviewed by the cub-reporters on the hotel-run, and received brief paragraphs of notice for twenty-four hours. | |
The Maltese Falcon | Book | Dashiell Hammett | In The Maltese Falcon, the St Francis Hotel is called the St Mark. |
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