BILLHEAD RECEIPT CLARENDON HOTEL, DR. J. A BROWN, PROPRIETOR

by California, Los Angeles County, Hotels

$75 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

Los Angeles, 1874. Invoice for 6 1/4 days of room and board. For a brief period in the 1870s, the Bella Union Hotel—considered Los Angeles' first hotel—was renamed the Clarendon Hotel. The Bella Union hotel, established in 1835, was briefly referred to as the Clarendon Hotel around 1873, before becoming the St. Charles Hotel by 1875. The Bella Union/Clarendon was notable for being one of the most prominent hotels in early Los Angeles, serving as a

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