ROOSEVELT HOTEL HOLLYWOOD

The Roosevelt Hotel is Hollywood's only historic hotel still in operation today - having just celebrated its 75th anniversary with a $15 million renovation. The home of the very first Academy Awards (1929) was built as a glamorous gathering place and hotel for the screen colony, with investors including Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Through the years, throngs of celebrities and people hoping to sight them have visited and resided at the hotel.

At the start of Hollywood’s golden days, as the silent pictures were being replaced with “talkies”, the Roosevelt Hotel was designed and built on sprawling strawberry fields as a benchmark of glamour and elegance, for celebrities and travelers alike. Named in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt, the hotel opened its doors onto Hollywood Boulevard on May 15, 1927, having been built at the then staggering cost of $2.5 million. It quickly became the epicenter of Hollywood, the Entertainment Capital of the World.