Hotel El Granada Historical

Hotel El Granada Historical (HM1X2A)

Location: Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 San Mateo County
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Country: United States of America
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N 37° 30.192', W 122° 28.3'

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Hotel El Granada, a two-story stucco building in the Mission-style opened in 1908 with twenty guest rooms upstairs and a ballroom downstairs. The town's first commercial building and site of the first post office boasted of piped in water and a modern sanitary system. Rates were two dollars a day.

The developers of the Ocean Shore Railroad catered free lunches at the hotel to attract vacationing families and home site buyers to Granada. "Jewel of the Coast" lots sold for $250 to $1000. After the demise of the railroad in 1920, the hotel hit hard times.

During Prohibition years, the hotel gained notoriety as a speakeasy. In later years the hotel became a dormitory for a local girls camp. Fire destroyed the hotel El Granada May 25, 1954. The two nearby steps remain to mark its entrance.
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HM NumberHM1X2A
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Year Placed2004
Placed ByDirk Muyskens and Jim Gordon
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Date Added Thursday, March 2nd, 2017 at 1:01am PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10S E 546697 N 4150827
Decimal Degrees37.50320000, -122.47166667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 37° 30.192', W 122° 28.3'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds37° 30' 11.52" N, 122° 28' 18" W
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Area Code(s)650, 415
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 118 Ave Balboa, Half Moon Bay CA 94019, US
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