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This beautiful structure was Beaumont's third hotel, the Beaumont Hotel. At the cost of $40,000, one of the most expensive improvements the investment company that purchased Egan's property made in 1887, was to construct this hotel in the hopes of attracting potential land buyers during the booming years. After the bust in 1888, the hotel stood empty for several years until it was renovated and reopened in 1907 as the renamed the Edinburgh Hotel. Unfortunately, the hotel was destroyed by fire in 1909. Picture taken by C. C. Pierce & Co. Photographers, Los Angeles, CA. In 1887, the three-story Victorian-style building opened as the Beaumont Hotel, but later closed, according to a book by local historian Elmer Wallace Holmes. In 1907, the ornate-looking building reopened as the Hotel Edinburgh and came to a fiery end in Aug. 1909 — about three years before cityhood. The old hotel was located where the El Rancho Restaurant and Best Western Rancho Motel are on Beaumont Avenue. Grand hotel Early 20th century accounts tell us that steam engines puffed their way into town and disgorged a sea of passengers at the train depot. Many stayed at Hotel Edinburgh, with its big, inviting front porch, and its tall towers with shuttered windows where guests could survey the landscape. The hotel guests were drawn by advertisements in out-of-town newspapers and by sales pitches delivered in packed rooms in downtown Los Angeles. They came to Beaumont searching for a much-touted agricultural paradise—a place in the sun where land and water was cheap and plentiful. By gently turning the page, we glimpse a hospitality industry that helped settle the Pass. It was a time before Highway 99 and motor courts. It was a time before the freeway and modern hotels with their Wi-Fi, Jacuzzis and complimentary breakfasts. It was an era when Hotel Edinburgh guests could stay for a week and enjoy three-meals-a-day for a mere $9-to-$15 weekly. “Unsurpassed For Health, Rest And Recreation,” proprietor David Cochrane proclaimed in the age-old brochure. The guest brochure also touted wintry, snow-capped mountains that were said to have “views as beautiful as anything in Switzerland.” It was a place with the “most healthful” climate in the state, and grounds that boasted tennis and croquet courts.
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