Lafayette Hotel

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View of the Lafayette Hotel, located on the west side of Main Street opposite of the St. Charles Hotel. The same "Rifle and Pistol Shooting" sign can be seen here. The Lafayette Hotel was built sometime in the early 1850s and was the second city hotel after the Bella Union (the U.S. Hotel was the third). It was renamed the Cosmopolitan Hotel. In the 1870s it was known as the best hotel in Los Angeles.