William Chapman Ralston
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William Chapman Ralston was a San Francisco businessman and financier, and the founder of the Bank of California.
The 1875 Palace Hotel
The April 1906 Palace Hotel Fire
Palace Hotel, San Francisco
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The Palace Hotel is a landmark historic hotel in San Francisco, California, located at the southwest corner of Market and New Montgomery streets. The hotel is also referred to as the New Palace Hotel to distinguish it from the original 1875 Palace Hotel, which had been demolished after being gutted by the fire caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The Palace Hotel on Market Street in San Francisco, 2008
Mōʻī, David Kalakaua (in white slacks), aboard the USS Charleston en route to San Francisco, died at the Palace Hotel after suffering a stroke in Santa Barbara.