Murphys Historic Hotel

 hotel, restaurant, bar, place with historical importance, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places

457 Main Street
Murphys, CA 95247
(209) 728-3444
murphyshotel.com/

The original Murphy's Hotel was building in 1855-1856 and was then called Sperry and Perry Hotel. It was a stage stop on the way to Calaveras Big Trees and was built to accommodate the guests traveling to that location. This hotel burned in a fire in 1859. Less than a year later a new hotel was up and running and replaced the wooden interior walls with brick walls. This helped save the structure from a fire in 1874 and an explosion and subsequent fire in 1893.

Between 1881-1963 the hotel changed hands several times until it was purchased by 35 members of the Ale and Quail club. This club was successful in getting the property listed on the National Register of Historic Places as # 71000134. In 2003 the property was sold to Dorian Faught, who remains the owner of the establishment to this day.

Prior to the turn of the century, many notable people have stayed in this hotel on their journeys through the southern mines and to the Calaveras Big Trees. The following were some of the guests: Mark Twain - 1877, Horatio Alger - 1877, Thomas J. Lipton, U. S. Grant, and C. E. Bolton (Black Bart) -1880, John Jacob Astor - 1878, Henry Ward Beecher - 1877, Josh. Billings, Bona Liscomb (one of Napoleons Aides) and E. S. and M. A. Rothchild - 1880, John Hittell - 1867 and John Bidwell and wife - 1877.