Mission Inn Hotel & Spa began as a quaint adobe boarding house in 1876, becoming a full-service hotel in the early 1900s. Opened by Frank Miller, it expanded in 1903 with over 200 guestrooms and the addition of the Mission Wing, built in Mission-Revival style while incorporating architectural features from more than 20 different California missions. Three more wings materialized as demand grew, including the Cloister, Spanish Wing and the Rotunda Wing, completed in 1931. Miller filled the hotel with valuable items from across the globe, including artwork, furniture and religious relics. Mission Inn still houses the oldest bell in Christendom, dating back to 1247.
The hotel has played host to U.S. Presidents and celebrities and was the setting for Hollywood productions including 1915ʼs “The Vampire”, 1938ʼs “Idiotʼs Delight” and 1997ʼs “Man in the Iron Mask”. Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, Hoover, Nixon, Reagan and Bush Jr; social leaders such as Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller and John Muir; and entertainers including Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand and James Brolin have all stayed, dined and relaxed at Mission Inn throughout its storied, nearly 150- year history.
Frank Miller successfully ran Mission Inn Hotel until his death in 1935. His family managed the hotel until the mid-1950s, when it changed hands multiple times and risked demolition until Duane and Kelly Roberts purchased the iconic property in the late ‘80s, establishing The Historic Mission Inn Corporation with headquarters in Newport Beach, CA. After a seven-year, $55 million renovation, the Roberts opened the hotel 1992. Kelly Roberts became Vice Chairman and COO to maintain Mission Innʼs reputation as a premier luxury California destination, and she went on to develop the annual Festival of Lights, her Tuscan-inspired award-winning Kellyʼs Spa and more.
The hotel has Moorish Revival architecture, Spanish Colonial architecture, Spanish Gothic architecture, and also is considered the largest Mission Revival style building in the United States. The hotel is a unique architectural work of art; and it is also a building that exudes a strange, horror-movie vibe as well. Perhaps because of its brooding gothic elements, or because of the the artifacts within it, the hotel has acquired a reputation of being haunted. There are a number of stories about ghosts in the hotel; however, the most popular stories about the hotel being haunted are related to the following areas: Frank Miller’s Room (located in the Northeast Corner of the Fourth Story); Alice Miller’s Room (located in Southeast Corner of the Fourth Story); the “catacombs” being haunted; and the hallways of the hotel generally being haunted.
Out of Southern California’s three most haunted destinations (the Whaley House and the Queen Mary comprising the other two), the Mission Inn in Riverside is the most unexpected. It is the most unexpected not because it is or it is not haunted, but because, well, it’s in Riverside. While I have nothing against Riverside - after all, it is was just named the eighth coolest city in America by Forbes Magazine - it is not a place that makes you think of unique architecture, or strange buildings. And yet, Riverside is indeed home to one of the strangest buildings in California (second only to the Winchester Mystery House): the Mission Inn.
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Негізгі бет Walking tour of the haunted Mission Inn Hotel in downtown Riverside California USA
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