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Drake Hotel (lower right) and the East Lake Shore Drive District from Oak Street Beach. According to local legend, John Drake (1826–1895) (the father of this hotel's founders) was standing with a hotel owner watching the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The owner, seeing his hotel threatened by the flames, offered to sell it for any price.
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Drake Hotel may refer to: in Canada. Drake Hotel (Toronto), Ontario; in the United States (by state) Drake Hotel (Chicago, Illinois), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Drake Hotel (Gallup, New Mexico), NRHP-listed in McKinley County; Drake Hotel (New York City), New York; Drake Hotel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), NRHP-listed
Hotel Wentworth, Pasadena, California, 1907, later purchased by Henry E. Huntington, reworked by Myron Hunt, and reopened as the Huntington Hotel in 1914. In 1954 the hotel complex was sold to the Sheraton Hotel chain. [13] Pacific Building, San Francisco, 1907, "remarkable for its Sullivanesque terra cotta ornament", [14] now the Palomar Hotel
John Burroughs Drake (January 17, 1826 – November 12, 1895) was a hotelier who was part owner of the Tremont House hotel in Chicago, Illinois. [1] He managed the Grand Pacific Hotel from 1874 to 1895. [ 2 ]
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Tracy C. Drake (1864–1939) and his brother John Drake Jnr. were the developers and proprietors of the Blackstone Hotel and Drake Hotel, [2] which are both located along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL. The former is located in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District and the latter along the Magnificent Mile.
King George V and Queen Mary visited south Yorkshire from 8 to 12 July 1912 and stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse for four days. The house party consisted of a large number of guests, including: Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang, the then-Archbishop of York; the Earl of Harewood and his Countess; the Marchioness of Londonderry; the Marquess of Zetland and Lady Zetland; the Earl of Scarborough and Lady ...