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Located at the corner of I (later, Broadway) and Tulare streets, Fresno. Erected in 1887, in Victorian architectural style by a local real estate developer Thomas E. Hughes at a total cost of $300,000. Consisted of a four-story brick structure finished in a sandstone color. The hotel contained 200 rooms and featured a large 100' x 100' central court, a dining room, a reading room, a billiard room and saloon, and a steam laundry. At the time of its completion the Hughes was the largest hotel between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It was the first building in Fresno to have an elevator and the first Fresno hotel to have electric lights, a telephone in each room, and a neon sign in front. It was destroyed by an arson fire in 1953.
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