Were the "Big Four" San Francisco Hotels built by the CPRR founders?

The Fairmont at 950 Mason St.; The Huntington Hotel & Nob Hill Spa, 1075 California St.; The InterContinental Mark Hopkins, 999 California St.; and, The Stanford Court Renaissance Hotel, 905 California St., San Francisco. While three of the four "Big Four" hotels on Nob Hill in San Francisco carry the names of members of the CPRR's "Big Four" (The Stanford, The Mark Hopkins, and The Huntington), none of these gentlemen ever built a hotel on Nob Hill. Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker instead each built great private mansions there in the 1870's while in 1892 Collis P.

Huntington acquired the existing (but long closed) mansion originally built by General David D. Colton, a railroad lawyer, who had died in 1878. (Ironically after his death, Colton's widow filed a suit against Stanford, Crocker, and Huntington who claimed that Colton had defrauded the railroad.

This bitter litigation was finally settled in 1886.) When Huntington died in1900 his wife, Arabella, ... more.

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