Franco American Hotel Building - Yreka, CA - E Clampus Vitus Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This historical marker hangs in front of the Franco American Hotel Building on historic W Miner St. There are numerous older buildings along Miner Street that contain historical markers that relate the history of each building. This historic building's marker reads:

Franco American Hotel Building 306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 316 W. Miner St. From a narrow, two story brick house in the 1850s, to an expansive hotel with a 167 foot frontage, the Franco American Hotel became on of the largest and finest inns in Northern California. Started by the Frenchman Leon Marniesse in 1855, the hotel housed a restaurant, Wells Fargo & Company Express Office, saloon and other businesses, and was a well-known stage stop. Through the years improvements consisted of a "piazza" or balcony across the front, additional suites of sleeping rooms upstairs and a two-story brick dining room. Among prominent hotel guests were Vice President Colfax, General & Mrs. Philip Sheridan and President Hayes. Donated by E Clampus Vitus, Humbug Chapter No. 73

I located a blog website that contains an article on the history of this building here. The Yreka Chamber of commerce website contains a great writeup on some if its history and has a small paragraph mentioning President Rutherford B. Haye's visit to this hotel and also contains a picture of him in front of the hotel here. I also located a photo of this hotel from 1981 without the current trees in front from the University of Oregon's Digital Archives here.

Yreka has a few websites devoted to preserving its rich history. Siskiyouhistory.org is a good place to start and breaks up the town's history into groups of years. Yrekapreservation.org contains some nice pictures of original homes and commercial buildings from yesteryear. Finally, Yrekahistory.blogspot.com is a good blog website which contains great stories and events of Yreka's past and all their past articles have been archived within the website.

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