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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places Building #01001458, January 17, 2002; located on the prominent Cortez Hill, the El Cortez Hotel was, until the early 1960s, the tallest building on the San Diego skyline at 310 feet high; it opened with 117 rooms arranged on 16 stories; it was a notable design done in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style;

Richard George Wheeler and Associates, Architects and Robert Parfet, Architect, associated together on renovations to the El Cortez Hotel in 1954. Ralph B. Erskine, an architect within the Wheeler Office also worked on the hotel.