Ambassador Hotel San Francisco
- Ambassador Hotel San Francisco
The Ambassador Hotel, originally the Ferris Harriman Hotel and Theater, is a 6 story SRO hotel located at 55 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. Completed in 1922, the hotel was designed by Earl B. Scott & K. McDonald. In 1929, the theater was converted to a garage.
The building can be seen in the Eddie Murphy movie "Metro". Science fiction and true crime author Miriam Allen deFord was a noted resident from 1936 until her death in 1975.
Over many years, the hotel fell into disrepair. In 1994, KRON, San Francisco's channel 4, showed a documentary about the hotel and its residents called "Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel" revealing the shocking state of the building, and the despair of some of the tenants.
In 2000, the property was acquired by TNDC (Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation), a non profit corporation that buys and repairs properties mostly in the Tenderloin of San Francisco. Construction on the 134 room SRO hotel ended in November 2003. It now serves as low income housing for some of San Francisco's most disenfranchised residents.
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