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The Senator Hotel (officially Hotel Senator) (1924–1979) was a nine-story, 400-room Italian Renaissance-style hotel in Sacramento, California located at 12th and L streets across from the California State Capitol building that served as a nexus of California political and social activity for more than 50 years. Opened in 1924, the Senator Hotel was where Arthur Samish, one of the most influential and powerful individual lobbyists in the history of California, maintained a suite during the 1930s and 1940s. President Gerald Ford spent the night at the Senator Hotel before the September 5, 1975, assassination attempt on him by cultist Manson family disciple Squeaky Fromme. Although the Senator Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in May 1979, the hotel was closed two months later and shuttered with panels placed over the windows that same year. The structure was renovated and then reopened in 1983 as an office building under the name Senator Hotel Office Building, giving lobbyists short-walking-distance access to California's state politicians. ==Features== The Senator Hotel building is divided into two main reinforced-concrete masses, each nine stories in height and connected by a lobby building. Stylistically modeled after the Palazzo Farnese in Florence, Italy and positioned to front on Sacramento's L Street, the L Street facade measures and includes a colonaded archway along the entire front and side facades.〔〔 When the building was opened in 1924, its archway system was covered in a peach-colored terra cotta that imitated "massive, smooth marble blocks" through deep etching and had an open front facade that served as a veranda for hotel guests.〔 That area later was enclosed in glass.〔 Originally, the hotel lobby resembled the 16th century Palazzo Farnese courtyard in Rome, Italy. To reach the skylight lit lobby, guests would enter from L Street through hand-painted decorated main doors and pass through "a colonnade of rough plastered walls covered with gold beneath tints of blue."〔 Optionally, the guest could travel straight from the entry doors, across the lobby, to the far end of the lobby and climb one of two winding staircases to reach a balcony floor extending around and overlooking the lobby.〔 The stair stick spindles lining the stairway sides were pastel paint shaded ornamental ironworks.〔 As a commercial establishment, the Senator Hotel not only offered lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents, the hotel also included restaurants, meeting rooms, and was available to the general public. When the hotel opened in 1924, its vaudeville theater featured the band, "The Syncopating Senators." The Senator Hotel had its own orchestra and featured an bar designed by American architect G. Albert Lansburgh for the hotel's "Empire Room."〔 In January 1937, a mural depicting the Britain's King Edward VIII abdication in December 1936 to marry American divorcée and socialite, Wallis Simpson, was added to the bar.〔 This mural came at a time when the abdication crisis was world news and brought protest from Sacramento's Delphian Society, who claimed that the mural showed bad judgment in its positive portrayal of the King and the divorcée and negative portrayal of United Kingdom Prime Minister Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England. Along with the Empire Room, the Senator Hotel included the "Peacock Room" that served as a tea room for women and the "Florentine Dining Room", which was designed to look like the Stone Room in the Palazzo Farnese and to serve as the hotel's main dining room.〔 The hotel also included the "Roman Banquet Hall" used as a ceremonial dining area for 125 to 150 people.〔 Many of these areas were redesigned in 1954.〔 As of 2012, the building had of space and tenants in each office could listen in any proceedings occurring in the California Assembly, Senate, or any committee hearing rooms in the state Capitol via a squawk box. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Senator Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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