Bowman-Biltmore Hotels - California

California

• The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, now renamed the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, is located on Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles. When it opened in 1923 it was the largest hotel west of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. It was designed by the architectural firm of Schultze & Weaver. The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel was the "Nerve center" of the 1960 Democratic National Convention; the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, the TV networks, and the candidates including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Adlai Stevenson. Room 8315 was used by the John Kennedy campaign.
• The Santa Barbara Biltmore, located in Montecito, California, on the Pacific Coast just south of Santa Barbara. A masterful synthesis of the Spanish Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and Moorish Revival styles of architecture and landscape architecture. 'the Biltmore' opened in 1927. (Four Seasons Hotels bought the Santa Barbara Biltmore in 1987. Ty Warner acquired ownership of the hotel through his Ty Warner Hotels & Resorts in 2000, with a historically sensitive major restoration and services updating following.