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Hotel Monte Vista

historic hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ5911758 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hotel Monte Vista is a historic hotel near U.S. Route 66 in Flagstaff, Arizona.

History

Hotel Monte Vista was built in 1927 and is in the historic downtown district of Flagstaff. It has 73 rooms and suites on three floors. Many famous people have stayed at the hotel, including John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Anthony Hopkins, Esther Williams, and Barbara Stanwyck.

The hotel is located at 100 North San Francisco Street. The Monte Vista Lounge, or "Monte V" as it is known, is a popular bar and entertainment venue.

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“Hotel Monte Vista” enters the record as historic hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hotel, Monte and Vista can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1927—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hotel, Monte and Vista.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5911758. Authority coordinates are 35.198, -111.647. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1927.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hotel Monte Vista” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.