First called the Sperry and Perry Hotel, it was opened by James L. Sperry and John Perry on August 20, 1856.
John Jacob Astor,
Ulysses S. Grant,
John Bidwell,
Charles Bolles (alias
Black Bart),
Henry Ward Beecher,
Horatio Alger,
J.P. Morgan and
Thomas Lipton. It also appeared in the public television series
Road Trip with Huell Howser, episode on the Mother Lode. This hotel is reportedly haunted. ==References==