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The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, 1875 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "the Bank Crowd"
        
        $9 million debt
        
        Rewrite his will
        
        Resignation from the bank's presidency
      - Beginning May 1875
        
        Series of economic setbacks
        
        National economic depression
    - - North Beach for a swim
        
        He was dead
    - - Salvage his investment
      - Final attempt to make good
      - California's achievements in industry and craftmanship
      - Night of October 14, 1875
        
        "Ill-mannered curiosity"
  - - - 120 feet high
        
        Seven stories
      - Ground floor
        
        Two and a half acres
      - Subterranean service areas
        
        Three acres
    - - Bay windows
        
        348 exterior rooms
        
        "Huge building 'broken out into bird-cages'"
        
        "A slight appearance of monotony"
        
        Furnished equally
        
        First-class experience
    - - John P. Gaynor
    - - Construction
    - - "Strength of a fortress"
    - - Extensive renovations
  - - - Angry property owners subverted
    - - New plan
    - - Earthquake
        
        Reasonable prices
  - - - "Probably" the world
  - - - 'White trash'
  - - - "It seemed to dance a jig"
    - - Palace might be saved
      - No water left
        
        The defenseless structure burned with the rest of the city
    - - $6 million value
      - Skeletal structure
        
        Almost no damage
    - - Earthquake-proof hotel
- - - - "Shopping to their hearts' content"
      - "Show-window"
    - - "Thus far shalt thou go and no further"
      - "But it will hardly do in the Palace Hotel"
- - - - Communication guests and office
      - Management tracking their employees
        
        "Tell-tales"
        
        "Sleepless watchman"
        
        "There are 25,000 bellboys"
        
        "One for each room, and numbered"
    - - Infrastructure
      - Technology
      - Technical departments
    - - Synchronized by regulator clock
      - Self-contained city
        
        Regulate "the well-regulated machine"
        
        Connect to the city working outside its walls
  - - - Symbol of
        
        Luxury
        
        Progress
        
        Commerce
      - Place
        
        International commercial world
- - - - 755 rooms and $5 million price tag
    - - His personal achievements
      - Rising star of San Francisco
    - - Strength and utility
      - Technological systems
        
        Functionalism
        
        Guests' comfort and safety
      - Structure's immensity and solidity
      - Built for permanence
        
        Withstand
        
        Earthquakes and time
  - - - Ohio farmer's son
        
        One of California's most powerful men
    - - Despite complete destruction
  - - - "Center of the city's social and professional life"
        
        "Everyone met there"
        
        "It was more than an hotel: it was a public institution"
    - - Extraordinary tribute
        
        New $9 million Palace
    - - $150 million restoration
        
        Garden Court
        
        San Francisco's only landmarked interior space