Milano Hotel Explained

Milano Hotel
Coordinates:38.7778°N -123.5408°W
Built:1905
Builder:Batiste Luchinetti
Architecture:Italianate
Added:June 23, 1978
Area:2acres
Refnum:78000720

The Milano Hotel, at 38300 California Highway 1, South, about a mile north of Gualala, California, was built in 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Construction was supervised by, and it was run as a hotel, saloon, and dining room, by Italian immigrant Batiste Luchinetti. It was built on cliffs facing the Pacific Ocean between Gualala and Bowens Landing, California. (Bowen's Landing was a lumber port / doghole port about 86 miles north of San Francisco.[1])

It survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with bottles being broken at its bar.

It is "flat front Italianate" in style.

A carriage shed and a small barn are two additional contributing buildings in the listing.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shipping . Mendocino Coast Model Railway and Historical Society. November 30, 2019.
  2. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=78000720}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Milano Hotel ]. National Park Service. Bruce McBroom . Theodora McBroom . August 8, 1977 . November 30, 2019. With