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The Beverly Hilton
Beverly Hills, California, United States · Hilton Hotels & Resorts · Accessible Luxury
Welton Becket designed Conrad Hilton's $12 million Beverly Hills hotel at Wilshire and Santa Monica; it opened on 11 August 1955 with Vice President Richard Nixon raising the flag. The International Ballroom, enlarged to about 1,700 seats by 1958, has hosted the Golden Globe Awards since 1961, making the Beverly Hilton Hollywood's long-running awards living room. Merv Griffin later owned the 8.9-acre property, and Hilton has managed it continuously since opening. Neighbouring Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills rose on the same owner's campus in 2017 after a hard-fought local height fight.
- 569 rooms
- Opened 1955
- Neighborhood: Wilshire / Santa Monica gateway
- Architect: Welton Becket
About The Beverly Hilton
- Hilton paid $3.07 million for the Crummer site after a 1949 lease deal collapsed, then mortgaged Washington's Mayflower Hotel for $5 million when construction costs overran.
- A 1961 garage expansion gave the hotel parking for 1,500 cars, then billed as the largest hotel parking facility in the world.
- Entertainer Merv Griffin bought the hotel for $100.2 million in December 1987 and sold it in 2003 to Packard Bell co-founder Beny Alagem for $130 million.
- Suite 434 was retired after Whitney Houston's death there on 11 February 2012; the room was later repurposed.
- Voters rejected Measure HH in 2016, blocking a proposed 37-story condominium tower on the hotel site.
Restaurants and bars
- Circa 55 — Restaurant
- Mercato — Restaurant
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
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