{"id":219501,"date":"2026-03-14T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219501\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:23:39","slug":"the-huntington-hotel-in-san-franciscos-nob-hill-re-opens-after-a-grand-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219501\/","title":{"rendered":"The Huntington Hotel, in San Francisco’s Nob Hill, Re-Opens After a Grand Renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is San Francisco<\/a> a world-class city? It\u2019s a question its residents hate, and with good reason. San Francisco has more private wealth than Boston<\/a>, Chicago<\/a>, Houston<\/a>, Seattle<\/a>, and Washington, D.C.<\/a>, combined, and its G.D.P. is larger than Dallas\u2019s. Many consider it America\u2019s most beautiful city. But if it is a world-class city, what is its world-class hotel? The hotel that doesn\u2019t just provide a place to bed down but reflects the city\u2019s grandest vision of itself\u2014a Carlyle or Claridge\u2019s or, in the case of a smaller city like San Francisco, a miniature grande dame like the Beau-Rivage Gen\u00e8ve.<\/p>\n

For many years in San Francisco, that place was the Huntington Hotel, a stately brick high-rise atop Nob Hill, just around the corner from the original Fairmont San Francisco\u2014the chain\u2019s first\u2014and across from the Pacific-Union Club. The Huntington had an odd duality: its neon marquee loomed overhead, broadcasting the hotel\u2019s presence from the city\u2019s highest point, yet the hotel itself was strictly for insiders. Like the Carlyle and Chateau Marmont, the property originated in 1922 as a luxury apartment building, then, in the 1950s, found its niche as an intimate hotel for the rich and renowned. Actresses from Lauren Bacall to Marlene Dietrich to Claudette Colbert stopped in, socializing with rock stars and politicians before retreating to unusually large rooms protected by an unusually discreet staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is San Francisco a world-class city? It\u2019s a question its residents hate, and with good reason. San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[100498,100499,100500,100501,100502,21856,63305,44496,100503,100504,62379,100505,100506,94209,100507,100508,100509,94203,46106,100510,40570,7566,7568,100511,100512,26854,100513,75646,100514,100515,100516,101,103,39047,102,104,106,105,13528,100517,100518,100519],"class_list":{"0":"post-219501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-altamont","9":"tag-american-hotels","10":"tag-big-four-restaurant","11":"tag-boutique-hotel","12":"tag-california-luxury-travel","13":"tag-castro","14":"tag-central-pacific-railroad","15":"tag-charles-crocker","16":"tag-claudette-colbert","17":"tag-collis-potter-huntington","18":"tag-fairmont-san-francisco","19":"tag-georgian-faade","20":"tag-grande-dame-hotel","21":"tag-greg-flynn","22":"tag-historic-hotel","23":"tag-hotel-renovation","24":"tag-hotel-reopening","25":"tag-huntington-hotel","26":"tag-ken-fulk","27":"tag-lauren-bacall","28":"tag-leland-stanford","29":"tag-luxury-hotel","30":"tag-luxury-travel","31":"tag-mark-hopkins-jr","32":"tag-marlene-dietrich","33":"tag-nob-hill","34":"tag-nob-hill-hotels","35":"tag-old-san-francisco","36":"tag-pacific-union-club","37":"tag-princess-margaret","38":"tag-san-bruno-hills","39":"tag-san-francisco","40":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","41":"tag-san-francisco-hotels","42":"tag-san-francisco-news","43":"tag-sf","44":"tag-sf-headlines","45":"tag-sf-news","46":"tag-tenderloin","47":"tag-the-rolling-stones","48":"tag-truman-capote","49":"tag-woodridge-capital-partners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}