词条 | Bella Union Hotel |
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|name=Bella Union Hotel |designation1=California | image =Bella Union Hotel 1873.jpg | image_size = | caption =Circa 1873 view of the Bella Union Hotel |designation1_number=656 |built=1835 |architect=William Wolfskill, Joseph Paulding and Richard Laughlin |location=Present-day Fletcher Bowron Square, Los Angeles[1] |demolished=1940 |coordinates = {{coord|34|3|15.09|N|118|14|28.33|W|display=inline,title}} }} The Bella Union Hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed in 1835, is California Historical Landmark No. 656,[1] It was effectively the last capitol building of Mexican California under Governor Pio Pico in 1845–47 and was a center of social and political life for decades. Situated on the east side of Commercial Street, one block east of Main Street, it was later known as the Clarendon Hotel and then as the St. Charles.[3][2][5][3] DescriptionThe one-story adobe structure was built in 1835 by "three American trappers" — William Wolfskill, Joseph Paulding and Richard Laughlin — as a home for Isaac Williams, a New England merchant who had arrived in Los Angeles in 1832.[3][4][5] In 1851, when Horace Bell, the author of the seminal historical work Reminiscences of a Ranger, first came to Los Angeles, the hotel was owned by James Brown Winston, a medical doctor, and Alpheus P. Hodges, the city's mayor. Bell's book, published in 1881, recounted how the hotel looked when he had stayed there thirty years before:[6][7] The house was a one-story flat-roofed adobe, with a corral in the rear, extending to Los Angeles street, with the usual great Spanish portal, near which stood a little frame house, one room above and one below. The lower room had the sign "Imprenta" over the door fronting on Los Angeles street, which meant that the Star was published therein. The room upstairs was used as a dormitory for the printers and editors. A second floor was added to the hotel in 1851, and a third in 1869.[3] Louis Roeder, later a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, who stayed at the Bella Union in 1856, recalled in 1903 that the Bella Union had been a one-story building, with a dining-room at the rear of the bar, roofed with canvas. Adjoining was a drug store, kept by Dr. [John Strother] Griffin and Dr. Miller. Then came the private residence of Mr. [Abel] Stearns, of the Stearns ranchos, a large adobe building, between which and the Plaza were a lot of shacks, occupied by Mexicans.[9] Notable occasions
a funny thing happened. Some leaders perpetrated a hoax on his honor. They raided the hotel[,] where Hodges gave them free whiskey. That night they carried on sham attacks till morning against a supposed foe. They men had made their plans carefully and carried them out so realistically that, according to Horace Bell, they completely hoodwinked the mayor, who actually thought the pueblo was being attacked by a mob of rebels.[7]
The talking-machine demonstration over Main St. yesterday was a success. The contraption is quite a toy and very interesting. It is a question yet with the most conservative thinking whether it can ever be put to practical use.[25]
References and notes1. ^1 {{cite ohp|656|Bella Union Hotel|2012-10-07}} 2. ^1 2 John R. Kieliaso, Historic Adobes of Los Angeles County, LAOkay.com 3. ^[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/238/] Its final mailing address was 314 North Main Street. 4. ^1 2 3 [https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/238/] Pacific Coast Architecture Database states the hotel was built for Benjamin Davis Wilson. 5. ^1 2 "Lee Side o' L.A.," Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1940, page A-4 6. ^1 [https://archive.org/stream/reminiscencesofr00bellrich#page/22/mode/2up/search/bella+union Horace Bell, Reminiscences of a Ranger] 7. ^1 Richard Simon, "Alpheus Hodges: A Name to Remember for Obscure Reasons," Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1993, page 1 8. ^ A nearby section of Bell's book describes the patrons of the hotel. 9. ^"In Olden Times: Recollections of a Pioneer," Los Angeles Times, March 8, 1903, page A-1 10. ^[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/238/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database] 11. ^1 On October 27, 1958, the Los Angeles Times ran a photograph of the St. Charles Hotel with the caption "In 1849, Don Benito Wilson, who had title of County Clerk, bought the Bella Union Hotel, later known as the St. Charles and leased it to [the] county as its first Courthouse. Hotel was razed in 1940." 12. ^William S. Murphy, "Then . . . . . and Now," Los Angeles Times, February 18, 1973, page F-28 13. ^Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors 14. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Michael Several, "Bella Union Hotel Site," December 1997, PublicArtInLA.com 15. ^1 William S. Murphy, "Lawyers' Papers Reveal Life in the Wild, Wild West," Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1986, page F-1 16. ^Johnston, William Preston. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ExITAAAAYAAJ The life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, embracing his services in the armies of the United States, the republic of Texas, and the Confederate States]. New York: D. Appleton, 1879. {{OCLC|289241}} 17. ^"Dramatic Kidnap Attempt Fails," Los Angeles Times, August 25, 1923, page III-11 A fictionalized account. 18. ^Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark. Edited by Maurice Harris Newmark; Marco R. Newmark. The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1916. "California as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900; American Memory, Library of Congress, page 340 19. ^J.M. Guinn, Los Angeles and Vicinity, Containing a History of the City From Its Earliest Settlement as a Spanish Pueblo to the Closing Year of the Nineteenth Century Chicago: Chapman Publishing (1901) 20. ^George Gardiner, Wild West magazine, quoted at HistoryNet.com, June 12, 2006 21. ^Bill Murphy, "Main Street Violence, 1865 Style," Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1956, page A=14 22. ^Cecilia Rasmussen, "L.A. Scene: The City Now and Then," Los Angeles Times, August 2, 1993, page 3 23. ^Steve Harvey, "People and Events," Los Angeles Times, November 24, 1988, page 2 24. ^Cecilia Rasmussen, "L.A. Then and Now: USC Is Early Developer's Monument," Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2000, page B-3 25. ^H.G.L., "First Phone Talk," Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1941, page A-4 External links
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