Mark Hopkins Hotel
| InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco | |
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The Mark Hopkins Hotel, 2009
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Location in Central San Francisco
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| Hotel chain | InterContinental |
| General information | |
| Address |
One Nob Hill 999 California Street San Francisco, California 94108 |
| Coordinates | 37°47′30″N 122°24′37″W / 37.791558°N 122.410364°WCoordinates: 37°47′30″N 122°24′37″W / 37.791558°N 122.410364°W |
| Opening | 4 December 1926 |
| Management | InterContinental Hotels Group |
| Height | 92.97 m (305.0 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 19 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Weeks & Day |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 380 |
| Number of suites | 39 |
| Number of restaurants |
Top of the Mark Nob Hill Club |
| Website | |
| intercontinentalmarkhopkins |
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| Official name | Site of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art |
| Reference no. | 754 |
| Reference no. | 184 |
The InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco is a luxury hotel located at the top of Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The hotel is managed by the InterContinental Hotels Group. The chain operates over 5000 hotels and resorts in approximately 75 nations. The Mark Hopkins is the oldest InterContinental in the United States.
The 19th floor penthouse suite was converted in 1939 into the glass-walled Top of the Mark restaurant cocktail lounge.
InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Mark Hopkins, one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, chose the southeastern peak of Nob Hill as the site for a dream home for his wife, Mary. The mansion was completed in 1878, after his death. Since the tower of the mansion was at the time the highest point in San Francisco, Eadweard Muybridge chose this location to shoot his iconic 1887 panoramic of the city from this location.
Mary Sherwood Hopkins, on her death in 1891 at the age of seventy-three, left the Nob Hill mansion and a $70 million estate to her second husband, Edward Francis Searles. In 1893, Searles donated the building and grounds to the San Francisco Art Association (now San Francisco Art Institute), for use as a school and museum. It was called the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and valued at $600,000 at the time.
The Mark Hopkins mansion survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, however, it was destroyed in the three-day fire that followed the earthquake.
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