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Known as the finest hotel in Southern California, the Pico House had bathrooms and water closets for both sexes on each floor. Pio Pico, the last governor of Mexican California, sold his land in the San Fernando Valley to raise money to build it, creating the city’s first three-story building and most elegant hotel. Designed in the Italianate style by Ezra F. Kysor, two facades were stuccoed to look like blue granite. The hotel had eighty-two bedrooms, twenty-one parlors, two interior courtyards, and a French restaurant on the ground floor. Pio Pico lost the hotel by foreclosure in 1880. From 1892 to 1920 it was called the National Hotel. The façade was restored in the 1960s, and additional interior work was done in 1980-81.
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