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A 1881 ad for the Empire Hotel
The Empire Hotel in Shasta, California was destroyed by the
fire of 1853 and rebuilt in brick in
1856. It stood three stories tall and was considered a first class hotel.
James V. Scott sold the hotel in
1892 for $2700 to James J. Hill, who tore the building down in 1923 and used the materials to build other buildings in Redding
[1]. (Such as the Hill Building.)
The hotel hosted luminaries such as Governors Stanford, Haight, and Bigler, John Bidwell, and Joaquin Miller. [2]
References
- ↑ Smith, Dottie (1999). The Dictionary of Early Shasta County History (2nd ed.). self-published.
- ↑ Frisbee, Mabel Moores and Jean Moores Beauchamp (1973). "Shasta: The Queen City of the North." Los Angeles: California Historical Society.
