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The Fairmont had just opened in 1906 when the San Francisco earthquake hit. The hotel was one of the few in its neighborhood to survive the disaster, but it was badly damaged by fire. Julia Morgan was hired to rebuild the hotel when the original architect hired to do the work, Stanford White, was murdered.
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