The Huntington Hotel is one of the landmark luxury hotels at the top of the

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district of

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. It is located at 1075 California Street, corner of Taylor Street. The hotel is a twelve-story, Georgian-style brick building that features 135 guest rooms and suites. It is currently closed.

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The hotel is named after Collis P. Huntington, one of the Big Four railroad tycoons of the

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. However, it is across California Street from the location of Huntington's mansion, on the site of a mansion owned by the Tobin family, founders of the Hibernia Bank. It was originally designed by

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as the Huntington Apartments in 1922, and was converted to a hotel by real estate developer Eugene Fritz, who bought the property in 1924. Fritz's grandchildren ran the hotel until selling it in 2011 to Singapore-based Grace International. The hotel closed on January 4, 2014, and reopened in May 2014 as The Scarlet Huntington, following a $15 million renovation. The hotel was sold to Los Angeles-based Woodridge Capital on September 28, 2018 for $51.9 million, and returned to its historic name, the Huntington Hotel. The hotel closed again in early 2020, due to the

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. In September 2022, it was announced that the hotel would remain closed, because the owners had defaulted on the hotel's $56.2 million mortgage, and the lender,

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was seeking to foreclose on the property.https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Shuttered-historic-Huntington-Hotel-on-S-F-s-17465842.php

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