Alessandro Hotel

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View 2: Exterior view of the Alessandro Hotel, an adobe hotel located on the southwest corner of Harvard and Florida. In 1928 the Alessandro Hotel, labeled as "comfort in the desert", was built on the old foundation of the Hotel Hemet (previously known as the Mayberry Hotel). Photograph dated June 20, 1929.Sadly, this hotel was removed in 1954 to make way for the new Security Pacific National Bank. Palm trees along the front (not visible in this shot) were planted 34 years earlier, in 1894, when the first hotel was erected. Hemet is a city in Riverside County that was founded in 1887 and incorporated on January 20, 1910 with 992 people. Members of the Cahuilla Indian tribe first inhabited the area. During the early 1800s, it became a cattle ranch for Mission San Luis Rey, which named the area Rancho San Jacinto. In 1895, the Hemet Dam was completed on the San Jacinto River creating Lake Hemet and providing a reliable water supply to the San Jacinto Valley.