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Postcard circa 1940s. Designed by John M. Cooper [2] and/or E. M. Frasier, [3] the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce cite the Knickerbocker as opening as a luxury apartment house in 1925 and then converting to a hotel, [1] while the United States Department of the Interior cite the Knickerbocker as opening as a hotel 1929. [2]
Welcome to Hollywood Secrets -- a weekly video series uncovering Hollywood's best-kept secrets. Check back for new episodes every Tuesday! The famed Hotel Alexandria in sunny Los Angeles was not ...
Located on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (right across the street from the theater commonly known as Grauman's Chinese), the 12-story hotel first opened its doors in May 1927 and quickly became a ...
The Queen Anne Hotel in San Francisco is a historic hotel in Pacific Heights. The Hotel used to be a girls boarding school in the 1800s. The headmaster, Mary Lake, is believed to still haunt the hotel. [19] The Hotel Union, particularly room 207, has been reported to be haunted. [20]
The Cecil Hotel is an affordable housing complex in Downtown Los Angeles. It opened on December 20, 1924, as a luxury hotel, [6] but declined during the Great Depression and subsequent decades. In 2011, the hotel was renamed the Stay On Main. The 14-floor hotel has 700 guest rooms and a checkered history, with many suicides and accidental or ...
Congress Plaza Hotel. Chicago Chicago's historic Congress Plaza Hotel, which opened in 1893 for Chicago World's Fair crowds, is supposedly home to many ghosts, including gangster Al Capone roaming ...
The Hotel Alexandria is a historic building constructed as a luxury hotel at the beginning of the 20th century in what was then the heart of downtown Los Angeles.As the business center of the city moved gradually westward, the hotel decayed and gradually devolved into a single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel housing long-term, low income residents and gained a reputation for crime and being unsafe.
The Driskill Hotel | Austin, Texas. The Driskill Hotel, opened in 1886, was built by cattle baron Jesse Driskill.It cost $400,000 to make (an enormous sum at the time). But in 1888, Driskill lost ...