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Palace Hotel, San Francisco, 40 , 46 , 177 , 41, 54

well-known residents, 33 , 33

Palace hotels, buildings, 37 –45, 78 , 175

and automobiles, 269 –270

definitions, 20 , 37 , 40 , 71 , 188

relation to neighborhoods, 47 –48, 191

See also Book Cadillac Hotel; Canterbury Hotel; Dining rooms; Drake Hotel; Fairmont Hotel; First class hotels; Hotel Bellevue; Lick House; Mark Hopkins Hotel; Palace Hotel; Saint Francis Hotel; Waldorf-Astoria (new); Waldorf-Astoria (original)

Palace hotels, general issues

advantages, 2 , 26 , 51

as business centers, 33 , 58 –59,

costs and conversions, 32 , 182 –183, 267 , 306

criticisms, 27 –28, 50 , 218

owners, 174 –175, 182

sociability of daily life, 29 , 45 –51, 60 –61

Palace hotels, residents, 48 , 60 , 265 , 309

individual examples:

Warren Beatty, 300 ;

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), 31 ;

Dwight Eisenhower, 2 ;

Gerald Ford, 43 ;

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Gates (Carnegie and U.S. Steel), 33 –34;

Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould, 34 ;

Mrs. Oliver Harriman, 34 ;

Major and Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson, 32 ;

Herbert Hoover, 2 , 43 ;

Lyndon Johnson, 2 ;

James R. Keene, 33 ;

Henry Kissinger, 43 ;

Levi Z. Leiter, 32 ;

Clare Booth Luce, 2 ;

General Douglas MacArthur, 43 ;

Cyril Magnin, 2 ;

Dylan

McKay, 300 ;

Perle Mesta, 2 ;

Potter Palmer, 32 ;

Charles M. Schwab, 33 ;

Lawrence Spivak, 2 ;

Leland Stanford, 33 ;

Alfred G. Vanderbilt, 34 ;

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 50 ;

Gertrude Vanderbilt, 50 ;

Gladys Vanderbilt, 50 ;

Edmund White, 36 ;

Henry Whitney, 50

Palm Beach, Florida, 49 , 29 , 49, 50

Park, Robert E., 207 , 226

Parking. See Automobiles

Parlor houses, 120

Parlor life and reform, 101 , 214 , 239 , 212

Perelman, S. J., 69

Permanence of architecture, 188 , 198 , 199

Personal independence

advantages, 7 , 127 , 144 , 222

and elderly, 160 , 283

family issues, 123 , 211 –212

Personal possessions, lack of, 8 , 106 , 224

Pfleuger, Timothy, 183

Planners. See City planning

Plaza Hotel, New York, 33 , 36 , 42 , 27

Plot assemblage, 172

Plumbing, 240, 268

problems of sharing baths, 215 , 229 , 275 , 290 , 293 , 215

See also Kitchens

Plumbing ratios, 70 –71, 243

in lodging houses, 143 , 146 , 245

in rooming houses, 94 , 99 , 297 –299, 98 , 100

Police station lodgings, New York, 148 , 136, 149

Politicians. See Midpriced hotels, residents; Palace hotels, residents

Porter, Langley, 208

Portland, Oregon, 288 –289, 294

Portland Hotel, San Francisco, 171

Potrero Hill, San Francisco, 160 , 162

Privacy

advantage of hotel housing, 31 , 123 –124, 216 , 59

essential for families, 215

and inexpensive hotels, 101 , 141 , 144 , 216

See also Mixture; Personal independence; Separation of spaces and groups

Private property, lack of, 8 , 106

Private residential clubs, 45 , 44

Privatism, 202 . See also Old city

Problem hotels, 290

Progressive Era housing reform, 202 –208, 234 –236

Prohibition and hotels, 43 , 178 , 219 , 239 , 274 , 293

Project Find, 286

Property industry, 192 , 194 , 229 –230, 286

and official housing reform, 186 , 236 –237, 246 , 256 , 260

stability of investment values, 246 –247, 253

Prostitution

advantages to hotel owners, 161

and expensive hotels, 46 , 120 , 217 , 218

in lodging house areas, 140 , 145 , 155 , 158

in rooming house areas, 115 , 120 –121, 239