38300 Highway One S, Gualala, California. County/parish: Mendocino.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 23, 1978. NRIS 78000720.
3 contributing buildings.
The Milano Hotel, at 38300 California Highway 1, South, about a mile north of Gualala, California, was built in 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Construction was supervised by, and it was run as a hotel, saloon, and dining room, by Italian immigrant Batiste Luchinetti. It was built on cliffs facing the Pacific Ocean between Gualala and Bowens Landing, California. (Bowen's Landing was a lumber port / doghole port about 86 miles north of San Francisco.)
It survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with bottles being broken at its bar.
It is "flat front Italianate" in style.
A carriage shed and a small barn are two additional contributing buildings in the listing.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859811