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Overview

Fresno real estate developer and booster Thomas E. Hughes (1830-1919)provided the $300,000 capital needed to build his eponymous Hughes Hotel in 1888. Contemporaries considered it one of the finest hotels in the CA's Central Valley, and was Fresno's tallest building, at four stories, at the time. It sprawled over an entire city block at I Street (later renamed Broadway) and Tulare Street, and contained about 200 guest rooms. Like many high-end hotels of the Victorian era, the Hughes had its own restaurant, bar, extensive lobby and parlor rooms for men and women, a billiard room, library, laundry and power plant. It was one of the first in Fresno to have all-electric light and telephones in every guest chamber. Like the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, the Hughes had a large courtyard with a fountain that was planted with orange trees and other ornamental specimens.

Alteration

By the 1920s, much of the ironwork and its attic story had been removed.

Demolition

The Hughes Hotel burned in an arson fire in 07/1953, requiring its complete demolition. A baseball stadium

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