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(More customer reviews)Hotel San Carlos opened in 1928 - it was the first Phoenix hotel with evaporative cooling; it also had ice cold water available from a gold spigot in each room. For these amenities it commanded an extra dollar/day ($3.50 total). The building was financed by Dwight Heard, local philanthropist who also owned the Arizona Republican newspaper. Fear of fire (the all-wood original Adams Hotel burned down) led to the San Carlos being built entirely out of poured concrete.
George Raft, Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, Betty Grable, Carole Lombard, Gene Autrey, and others stayed here. Clark Gable had a standard room order - #412, a corner room.
Three native American boys died in the underground well/stream located under the building - their ghosts are said to be most noticeable in the basement. The site originally was the site of the town's first school.
The hotel had 144 rooms, 80 with an outside view. Its original steam heat system is still in use.
Interesting sidenote: The author's father bought the hotel in 1973, and the family has retained ownership since. That individual was also the person who sent the original message from France announcing the end of WWII. (Two attempts to sell it fell through when the buyers failed to keep up the payments.)
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On the corner of Central Avenue and Monroe Street, in the center of downtown Phoenix, is the historic Hotel San Carlos. Local Native Americans once worshipped a god of learning in this same area, and so early white settlers chose the site for the cityÂ's first school, the Little Adobe School, in 1873. After the Little Adobe School, the location served as a ballpark, a brick schoolhouse, the Central School, and finally the Hotel San Carlos, which opened in March 1928. The first hotel in Phoenix to boast steam heat, elevators, and air-conditioning, Hotel San Carlos has a remarkable story and has even seen its share of movie stars, including Mae West, Gene Autry, and Marilyn Monroe. Clark Gable always stayed in the same corner room on the fourth floor so he could people-watch. Even the friendly ghost of Leone Jensen, who appears regularly at the foot of the guest beds, has added to the unique legacy and continuing popularity of Hotel San Carlos.
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