On May 16, 1914, the Travelers’ Hotel opened for business at the corner of 5th and J Streets in Sacramento, California. It was a very luxurious hotel that stood 80 feet tall and was divided into three wings, resembling the shape of the letter “E” turned on its side. Because of the three wings, the six-story hotel allowed all 226 rooms to face outside. The building was copied from the famous St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. James L. Flanagan was the first manager and Ransome Concrete Company built the hotel at a cost of $525,000. The hotel boasted bedside reading lamps, automatic water faucets, bathtubs, instant ice-water, high-class plumbing, and many other special amenities. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Owners of the building converted the hotel to office space in the 1980s with retail businesses and restaurants on the first floor. The building still stands today just a short distance from the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento’s Downtown ...