presidents, activists, celebrities… oh my! movers and shakers at riverside’s mission inn
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Presidents, Activists, Celebrities… Oh My! Movers and Shakers at Riverside’s Mission Inn. When the Mission Inn first opened in 1885, it was known as the Glenwood Hotel. It became the Mission Inn in 1903. . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Presidents, Activists,
Celebrities… Oh My!
Movers and Shakers at Riverside’s Mission Inn
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When the Mission Inn first opened in 1885, it was known as the Glenwood
Hotel. It became the Mission Inn in 1903.
Throughout the more than 100 year history of the hotel, many famous guests called the hotel home during visits to
Riverside.
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President Roosevelt replanting one of Riverside’s Naval Orange
trees in 1903.
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President William Howard Taft and his chair. The “Taft Chair” is still on display in the Mission
Inn lobby.
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John F Kennedy attended a Peace Conference at the Mission Inn in 1940
while he was a college student.
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Ronald and Nancy Reagan spent their
honeymoon at the Inn in 1952.
Richard and Patricia Nixon were married in
the Presidential lounge in 1940.
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Famous scientists and inventors like Albert Einstein and Henry
Ford visited the hotel in the early 1900s.
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Social reformers like Booker T. Washington and Susan B. Anthony visited the hotel in
its early years.
Booker T. Washington stayed at the Mission Inn in 1914.
Susan B. Anthony stayed at the hotel in 1895 when it was
still called the Glenwood Hotel.
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Many more notable figures including John Muir, the
founder of the Sierra Club, and Helen Keller, a political activist and
disabilities advocate, have also visited the hotel.