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Palace Hotel

Address: 2 New Montgomery St., SoMa, San Francisco, CA | Map It
Phone: 415/512-1111
www.sfpalace.com

Category: Hotels
Location: SoMa

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Fodor's Review:

The city's oldest hotel, a Sheraton property, opened in 1875. Fire destroyed the original Palace after the 1906 earthquake, despite the hotel's 28,000-gallon reservoir; the current building dates from 1909. President Warren Harding died at the Palace while still in office in 1923, and the body of King Kalakaua of Hawaii spent a night here after he died in San Francisco in 1891. The managers play up this ghoulish past with talk of a haunted guest room. San Francisco City Guides (415/557-4266) offers free guided tours of the Palace Hotel's grand interior. You see the glass-dome Garden Court restaurant, mosaic-tile floors in Oriental rug designs, and Maxfield Parrish's wall-size painting The Pied Piper, the centerpiece of the Pied Piper Bar. Glass cases off the main lobby contain memorabilia of the hotel's glory days.

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