Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1902/00/00 | Theresa Fair Oelrichs | Developer | Tessie and Virginia Fair hire Reid brothers to design the Fairmont Hotel, construction begins in the same year. | |||
1902/00/00 | Virginia Fair Vanderbilt | Developer | Tessie and Virginia Fair hire Reid brothers to design the Fairmont Hotel, construction begins in the same year. | |||
1902/00/00 | Reid and Reid | Architect | Tessie and Virginia Fair hire Reid brothers to design the Fairmont Hotel, construction begins in the same year. | |||
1906/04/06 | Theresa Fair Oelrichs | Owner | Tessie and Virginia Fair sell The Fairmont to the Law brothers, Herbert and Hartland, in exchange for two office buildings at Mission St and New Montgomery St | |||
1906/04/06 | Virginia Fair Vanderbilt | Owner | Tessie and Virginia Fair sell The Fairmont to the Law brothers, Herbert and Hartland, in exchange for two office buildings at Mission St and New Montgomery St | |||
1906/04/19 | The Fairmont's windows begin to crack from the heat from the devastating fires. | Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake | ||||
1906/06/00 | Stanford White | Architect | The Law brothers select Stanford White to repair the earthquake damaged Fairmont | |||
1907/04/18 | Julia Morgan | Architect | The Fairmont celebrates its opening with a grand banquet of 600 pounds of turtle, 13000 oysters and $5000 worth of California and French wines. Original opening was delayed by the need to restore damage from San Francisco earthquake. | Oyster | Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake | |
1908/05/00 | Theresa Fair Oelrichs | Owner | Tessie (Fair) Oelrichs repurchases The Fairmont | |||
1945/05/00 | Harold LeClair Ickes | US Delegate | The Fairmont Hotel's Garden Room host a meeting to draft the Charter for creation of United Nations. | Establishment of the United Nations | ||
1947/00/00 | Dorothy Draper | Decorator | Venetian Room has a grand reopening, remodeled by Dorothy Draper | |||
1980/02/00 | Tina Turner | Performer | Roger Davies agrees to become Tina Turner's manager after seeing her perform at the Venetian Ballroom in the Fairmont San Francisco hotel. |
Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
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Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar |
Particulars for Fairmont Hotel: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Architectural Style | Beaux Arts |
Sight Category | Building |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Historic Use | Hotel |
Level of Significance | National |
Area of Significance | Politics-government |
Owner | Private |
Lodging | |
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Lodging Attribute | Grand Hotel |
Lodging Style | Hotel |
Lodging category | Upscale Lodging |
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