It was located at the corner of I (later, Broadway) and Tulare streets, Fresno and erected in 1887 in Victorian architectural style by a local real estate developer Thomas E. Hughes at a total cost of $300,000. Consisted of a four-story brick structure finished in a sandstone color. At its completion, the Hughes was the largest hotel between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It was the first building in Fresno to have an elevator and the first Fresno hotel to have electric lights, a telephone in each room, and a neon sign in front. An arson fire destroyed it in 1953.
