The essay by author Antanas Sileika that opens the late John Bentley Mays’s previously unpublished final novel, The Occidental Hotel, is bracingly upfront in managing a reader’s expectations. “I ...

MUSKEGON, MI -- For more than a century, the Occidental Hotel was the centerpiece of Western Avenue and Third Street in downtown Muskegon. In 1864, a lumberman, Lyman Mason, bought the property.

For nearly a century, the descendants of Carlo Panizzera have been caretakers and owners of the historic Union Hotel in Occidental. On June 26, the restaurant and ballroom (no longer a hotel ...

The two-storey building was designed by Victoria architect John Teague, who was also behind the character of Victoria City Hall, and Canada’s Historic Places registry says the substantial and ...

BUFFALO - With its authentic historic accommodations and modern conveniences, the Historic Occidental Hotel in Buffalo is ready to serve business groups during retreats or meetings.

For nearly a century, the descendants of Carlo Panizzera have been caretakers and owners of the historic Union Hotel in Occidental. On June 26, the restaurant and ballroom ...

BUFFALO -- Dawn Dawson-Wexo couldn't find a good chef for what she could pay. Since she reopened The Historic Occidental Hotel in Buffalo in 1997, a number of cooks have come and gone from the ...

A landmark Santa Rosa hotel, once heralded in newspapers as the “best first-class hotel north of San Francisco,” was torn down along with other historic buildings in 1977 to make way for the ...

The Occidental was founded in 1880, and, in time, it earned a sterling reputation among its patrons, and it became known as a "grand hotel" by the late 1800s.