Historic California Hotel Closing Monday

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Mar 1st 2009 at 8:02AM

One of the oldest hotels in California is set to close. The Holbrooke Hotel in Grass Valley, California has been for sale for a while but has not been able to find a buyer. The hotel was built in 1851 and has been been visited by four U.S. presidents and famous guests like Mark Twain and Clint Eastwood. The Golden Gate Saloon is known as the oldest continuously operating saloon west of the Mississippi and the bar was brought over from Italy in 1851. The 28-room hotel is in a landmark building and is even said to have a few ghosts. Around 40 employees will lose their jobs when the hotel closes. The hotel was listed for around $2.5 million which, even if it sold at that rate, would still leave the owners upside down.

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foolfrog Mar 1st 2009 6:48PM

Too bad the banks won't lend the money to help out! After all isn't that what the bail-out money was supposed to help them do, help business? This is very sad! No wonder Europeans say we have no history! It keeps vanishing!
Good luck to all the employees trying to find another job in this economy!
Come on America! I know we can do better! Time to get out of this depression!

P Mar 1st 2009 7:10PM

That is too bad. Where are the historical preservation societies and why don't those Wall Streeters invest in things like this instead of expensive parties, getaways and golf?

maria Mar 1st 2009 7:18PM

Thank goodness it is historical building, so it is being closed and not destroyed...this will give them additional time to fine a buyer or business partner.

Miss Kelli Taylor Mar 1st 2009 7:23PM

Everything are closing and shutting down because of

President Barack Obama the screwed up President.

Big Chief Mar 1st 2009 7:47PM

Miss Kelli you must be as dumb as your use of the English language!!
President Obama hasn't even been in office 45 days...HE is trying to fix what was definitely broken. Where the hell do you come off saying he's screwed up? If that is truly how YOU feel then YOU are a screwed up nut case!

JP Mar 1st 2009 10:43PM

The Government can't step in with 2.5 million for this piece of History, but it can spend 8 Billion dollars on a rail from Disneylland to Las Vegas. So much for stimulus.

blessed today Mar 1st 2009 8:54PM

donald trump should buy this beautiful hotel w/so much american history and keep the people employed, what a shame to see this happens, IMO so much of what should be treasured in our country has gone away, people need to not be so overly indulged in every fast self gradifying technology and just throw history to the wind, i hope somehow this gets saved...to be there for our childrena nd grandkids to be able" to actually still see"... NOT just surf on the net, the past that this country was built from !!

LeeAnn Mar 1st 2009 8:41PM

And like his casinos, it too would become BANKRUPT!!!!

blessed today Mar 5th 2009 11:04AM

well as far as i know he isnt bankrupt he just files one of the start chapters to keep creditors off hs back till he starts pulling profits, but anyways someone who would keep it going ...such a great loss to americans my point being !!

Jerry234 Mar 1st 2009 10:06PM

I went to that hotel once for dinner and drinks. It is a very historic place. It was once a stage coach stop during the gold rush; is on the original wooden walkway they used in those days and has one of the first elevators that was installed in Northern California during the 1800's. I suppose due to its location, it hasn't received the amount of popularity needed to stay competative. I hope it survives because it is indeed an important California historical landmark.

Tiffany Mar 2nd 2009 8:51PM

Ohh... I remember this hotel from an episode of Ghost Hunters... Thats sad thats its closing down...

Booger Mar 2nd 2009 8:37PM

Maybe they should call Hussein Obama and ask him and Billary to come up with a Stimulus Package the rest of the DemoCraps will vote for.

ERICG Mar 2nd 2009 8:55PM

They don't have wi-fi. No LCD HD TV's. No DVD's.
Who, in the world, would want to spend a night there?
For goodness sake, the nearest helipad is at least 20 miles away. I bet their swimming pool isn't even Olympic size.

Raffaello Mar 2nd 2009 10:11PM

Tough to compete $2.5 mill and only 28 rooms. If I had an extra $2.5 M, I would buy it for cash and just kick back and run it as a labor of love. I would only allow sane people to stay there- as far as not HD TV, that is a plus- I would only show cowboy movies on CCTV, I would have Sat nite square dancing, buffet style meals, covered wagon rides and a stage coach to move folks around.

the vegas style guy Mar 3rd 2009 6:23AM

How do you people blame President O bama and "Billary"for ANY of the current economic crisis? Have you been asleep for the last 8 yrs. Oh wait. I guess you have.

Idiots.

Lizzie Mar 7th 2009 12:54PM

What a wonderful hotel! How wonderful it would be if Hugh Laurie (Dr. House) were to buy it! His lifelong ambition is to play piano in a hotel lounge, and he repeatedly states that is what he wants to do when he retires from acting. Of course, if he were ever there before retiring, it would be continually rented by wild, crazy, adoring women, but that should be a good thing, making it possible for him to recoup his investment quite rapidly! And if he were to actually play piano in the lounge, a high fence with a gate around the property would have to be erected, and quite a few large guards, perhaps some of the boxers he trains with, would be required to beat off all the women storming the gate! Please! Can't someone contact him about this property?