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Cecil Hotel

1924 – 2017

The Cecil Hotel is an affordable housing complex in Downtown Los Angeles. It opened on December 20, 1924, as a hotel, but declined during the Great Depression and subsequent decades. In 2011, the hotel was renamed the Stay On Main.

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In 2008, two long-time residents referred to the Cecil as "The Suicide", and it became a popular nickname in social media years later.

In 1989, Ramirez was convicted of 13 murders and sentenced to death, although he would ultimately die of cancer in 2013.

Renovations started in 2017 were halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the hotel's temporary closure.

The hotel closed in 2017 for the renovation, but the work was suspended indefinitely when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

In 2016, Matt Baron, president of Simon Baron, said he was committed to the preservation of architecturally or historically significant components of the building, such as the hotel's grand lobby, but his company planned to completely redevelop the interior and fix the "hodgepodge" work that had been done in more recent years.

In February 2017, the Los Angeles City Council voted to deem the Cecil a Historic-Cultural Monument, because it is representative of an early 20th-century American hotel and because of the historic significance of its architect's body of work.

Source: Wikipedia / Wikidata