Hotelo ya Fairmont: Nob Hill Grande Dame

Hotelo ya Fairmont: Nob Hill Grande Dame
Hotelo ya Fairmont: Nob Hill Grande Dame

Grande Dame yokongola pamwamba pa Phiri la Nob mkati San Francisco adatchulidwa ndi Senator wa ku America a James Graham Fair (1834-1894) ndi ana awo aakazi, Theresa Fair Oelrichs ndi Virginia Fair Vanderbilt. Pamene mfumu yasiliva James Fair idagula malowa kumapeto kwa zaka za m'ma 1800, chidwi chake chinali kumanga nyumba yayikulu kwambiri m'deralo. Komabe, atamwalira mu 1894, maere anali osakonzedwa mpaka 1907 pomwe ana ake aakazi adalamula kampani ya zomangamanga ya Reid & Reid kuti ipange hotelo yayikulu mchikhalidwe cha ku Italy.

Abale a Reid: James (1851-1943), Merrit (1855-1932) ndi Watson (1858-1944) adapanga chipinda cha zipinda 600, nyumba zisanu ndi ziwiri zopangidwa ndi miyala yaimvi, ma kirimu amiyala komanso miyala yamatope. Asanatsegule hotelo yatsopanoyo, chivomezi cha San Francisco mu 1906 ndi moto wotsatira unatsitsa nyumbayo. Eni ake a Herbert ndi Hartland Law, omwe amapanga mankhwala ovomerezeka ovomerezeka, adayesetsa kwambiri kumanganso Fairmont. Analemba ntchito a Stanford White pakampani yotchuka ya McKim, Mead & White. Tsoka ilo, White adachita nawo kansalu kachikondi ndipo adawomberedwa ndikuphedwa ndi mamiliyoni ambiri Harry Thaw. Abale a Law adalembera Julia Morgan, womanga nyumba, yemwe anali woyamba kumaliza maphunziro apamwamba ku Ecole des Beaux Arts ku Paris (komanso waluntha kumbuyo kwa Hearst Castle). Chaka chimodzi pambuyo pake, pa Epulo 18, 1907, Fairmont Hotel idatsegulidwa ndipo mu 1908, Theresa Fair Oelrichs adapezanso hotelo yobwezeretsedwayo.

Fairmont mwamsanga inakhala hotelo yotchuka kwambiri ku San Francisco yomwe imakopa mabanja kuti azikhala kwa miyezi iwiri kapena itatu. Fairmont adapereka sukulu yokhala ndi zida zonse zanyimbo, zovina, zaluso komanso maphunziro athunthu. Mu 1926, chipinda chachisanu ndi chitatu chinawonjezeredwa kuphatikiza Penthouse Suite 6,000.

Pofika 1917, DM Linnard adatenga oyang'anira ndipo mu 1924 adagula chiwongola dzanja kuchokera kubanja la Oelrichs. Mu 1929, adagulitsa Fairmont kwa George Smith, katswiri wazamigodi yemwe anali atangomaliza kumene ku Hotel ya Hop Hopkins. Smith adakonzanso kwakukulu ndikuyika dziwe lamkati, Fairmont Plunge.

Kwa milungu khumi ndi chimodzi mu 1945, Fairmont anali likulu la dziko lapansi kulandira nthumwi zochokera kumayiko opitilira makumi anayi akuimira makumi asanu ndi atatu pa zana aanthu padziko lapansi kuti alembe Mgwirizano wa United Nations. Pa Juni 26, 1945, Purezidenti Harry Truman adasaina Mgwirizanowu. Pafupifupi nthawi yomweyo, a Benjamin Swig omwe anali azachuma komanso opereka mphatso zachifundo adagula makumi asanu ndi anayi mphambu anayi a Fairmont kwa $ 2 miliyoni yomwe adawafotokoza motere: "Nditagula hoteloyo, idatha ntchito. Inali nyumba yanyumba yolemera kwambiri, ambiri aiwo anali otanthauzira mawu. Anagundidwa ndi kunyalanyazidwa. Mapaipi anali akuphulika - tinkadontha khumi mpaka khumi ndi asanu patsiku - kunalibe kapeti pansi ndipo chinthu chonsecho chinali azimayi okalamba okhaokha. "

Swig adazindikira mwachangu kuti dziwe la Plunge silimapanga ndalama. Adaganiza zokasandutsa malo odyera ndi malo omwera mowa otchedwa SS Tonga pambuyo pa Mel Melvin, wopanga makina otsogola a MGM atapeza schooner yachikale yazomangamanga yotchedwa dzina lovunda m'matope pafupi ndi Martinez. Alendo anali kudya chakudya cha ku China, akumamwa zakumwa zosasangalatsa pabwalo la schooner, akuyang'ana m'madzi amtambo a Plunge wakale omwe tsopano ali ndi bwalo loyimba la oimba mu Chipinda cha Tonga. Mnyanjayo idakulitsidwa ndi mikuntho yamkuntho yamkuntho, yodzaza ndi mphezi ndi mvula yamavuto yomwe imagwa kuchokera kwa omwe amabisala. Swig adalemba ntchito a Dorothy Draper, wokongoletsa wotchuka, kuti asinthe malo olandirira alendo komanso malo aboma. Dongosolo lamakono lamakono miliyoni linamalizidwa mu 1950. 

San Francisco Chronicle adanena kuti nsalu pafupifupi makilomita sikisi ndi ma carpeting atatu adagwiritsidwa ntchito pokonzanso. Wotsutsa wina adati Draper "adatengera mzimu wakale, kukondana kwamasiku a Champagne, miyambo yamzindawu ikuphatikizana ndi zamakono." Adawonjezera "Draper Touch" ku Club ya Mgonero wa Venetian yomwe idatsegulidwa mu 1947 ndi mipando 400. Inakopa osangalatsa okwera ndege ngati Ethel Waters, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Tina Turner, Sammy Davis, Jr., Lena Horne, Red Skelton, James Brown, Judy Collins, Tony Bennett (omwe adayimba "Ndasiya Mtima Wanga ku San Francisco ”koyamba kuno ku 1962) ndi Ernie Heckscher Band yomwe idasewera zaka 36.

Mu 1961, Ben Swig adamanga nsanja yolumikizana ya nsanjika 23 yokhala ndi Crown Room pamwamba pake ndi chikepe chagalasi kunja kwa nsanjayo wokhala ndi malingaliro abwino kwambiri mzindawo. Adawonjezeranso Merry-Go-Round Bar ku Cirque Lounge yotchuka ndi nyama zake zamtchire ndikuzunguliza mozungulira zopangidwa ndi Tim Pflueger womanga wa Art Deco mu 1933.

Makanema odziwika pawailesi yakanema a 1983 "Hotel”Yochokera m'buku logulitsidwa kwambiri la Arthur Hailey adajambulidwa pamalo olandirira alendo ku Fairmont pazopeka" St. Gregory Hotel. ”

Banja la Swig lidagulitsa hoteloyo ku 1994 kwa Maritz, Wolffe & Co komanso Saudi Arabia Arabia Prince Alwaleed bin Talel yemwe amayendetsa mahoteli 94 padziko lonse lapansi pansi pa Raffles, Fairmont ndi Swissotel. Mu 2012, Oaktree Capital Management ndi Woodridge Capital Partners adapeza Fairmont San Francisco kwa $ 200 miliyoni Maritz, Wolffe & Co atalephera kulandira chilolezo chosintha gawo lina kukhala nyumba zogona.

Mu 2009, zidanenedwa kuti Chipinda cha Fairmont's Tonga, malo olemekezeka a tiki, omwe adatsegulidwa mu 1945, atha kugwetsedwa kuti apange mwayi wosinthira kondomu munyumba yoyandikana nayo. Pulogalamu ya New York Times adanena pa Epulo 3, 2009 kuti “… San Franciscans asonkhana mozungulira Chipinda cha Tonga. Adalemba makalata, adasainira zopempha ndipo adya mopambanitsa zakumwa zozizilitsa kukhosi m'kachisi uyu wamatope otentha pamwamba pa Phiri la Nob… .chimodzi mwazitsanzo zabwino kwambiri za paradiso wabodza wa ku Polynesia wozungulira. " Kuyambira Meyi, 2016, Chipinda cha Tonga chayambanso kuyambiranso ndipo sipanakhale chisankho chokhudza tsogolo lake.

Mu 2015, Oaktree ndi Woodridge adagulitsa Fairmont San Francisco kwa $ 450 miliyoni kumakampani ogwirizana a Mirae Asset Global Investments, kampani yayikulu yothandizira zachuma ku Seoul, South Korea. Kuyambira chaka cha 2011, kampaniyo yapeza malo ogulitsa malonda opitilira $ 8 biliyoni kuphatikiza chipinda cha 317 chanyumba ya Se Seasons Hotel Seoul, chipinda cha 531 chipinda cha Four Seasons Hotel Sydney, chipinda cha 540 cha Fairmont Orchid Hotel ndi Bwalo lazipinda 282 la Marriott Seoul Pangyo.

The Fairmont San Francisco adawonjezeredwa ku National Register of Historic Places pa Epulo 17, 2002. Ndi membala wa Historic Hotels of America, pulogalamu yovomerezeka ya National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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Stanley Turkel idasankhidwa kukhala 2014 komanso 2015 Historian of the Year wolemba mbiri yakale ku America, pulogalamu yovomerezeka ya National Trust for Historic Preservation. Turkel ndi mlangizi wofalitsidwa kwambiri ku United States. Amagwiritsa ntchito malo ake owerengera kuhotelo ngati mboni waluso pamilandu yokhudzana ndi hotelo, amapereka kasamalidwe ka chuma ndi kuyankhulana kwa hotelo. Amadziwika kuti ndi Master Hotel Supplier Emeritus ndi Educational Institute of the American Hotel and Lodging Association. [imelo ndiotetezedwa] 917-628-8549

Bukhu Langa Latsopano "Hotel Mavens Voliyumu 3: Bob ndi Larry Tisch, Curt Strand, Ralph Hitz, Cesar Ritz, Raymond Orteig" adatulutsidwa kumene.

Mabuku Anga Ena Omasindikizidwa A Hotelo

• Ma Hoteli Akuluakulu aku America: Apainiya a Makampani Ogulitsa (2009)

• Kumangidwa Pomaliza: Mahotela Akale Zaka 100+ ku New York (2011)

• Kumangidwa Komalizira: Mahotela Azaka 100+ Kum'mawa kwa Mississippi (2013)

• Hotel Mavens: Lucius M. Boomer, George C. Boldt, Oscar waku Waldorf (2014)

• Great American Hoteliers Voliyumu 2: Apainiya a Hotel Viwanda (2016)

• Kumangidwa Komalizira: Mahotela Akale + Zaka 100+ Kumadzulo kwa Mississippi (2017)

• Hotel Mavens Volume 2: Henry Morrison Flagler, Henry Bradley Plant, Carl Graham Fisher (2018)

• Great American Hotel Architects Volume I (2019)

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