The Cecil Hotel is an affordable housing complex in Downtown Los Angeles. It opened on December 20, 1924, as a luxury hotel, [6] but declined during the Great Depression and subsequent decades. In 2011, the hotel was renamed the Stay On Main.

Numerous violent incidents, some resulting in death, have occurred at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. [a] Originally opened as a middle-class hotel on December 20, 1924, it eventually became a budget hotel, hostel, and rooming house. Its reputation is due to at least 16 sudden or unexplained deaths that have occurred in or around the hotel. [2]

May 23, 2023 · Said to be haunted to this day, Los Angeles' Cecil Hotel has been a disturbing den of ghosts, murderers, and other horrors ever since it was built in 1924. The Cecil Hotel was home to some 16 murders or suicides, and played host to two notorious serial killers.

Mar 9, 2022 · The Los Angeles hotel has been the location of several tragedies since the 1920s. Here's what it's like since reopening, according to a neighbor.

Mar 15, 2024 · The Answer is – The Cecil Hotel is no longer operating as a traditional hotel. It closed in 2017 due to its infamous reputation and to undergo extensive renovations. The renovations were aimed at transforming the building into affordable housing units.

Mar 9, 2024 · Best known for the Netflix series about the dead body found in a water tank on its roof. The building is the infamous Cecil Hotel, which was transformed in recent years into a privately funded...

Mar 3, 2023 · Tucked into downtown Los Angeles is a 19-floor hotel with 700 rooms and an otherwise unremarkable exterior. But within the walls of this structure, nightmarish scenes of humanity's darkness unfolded. It's the Cecil Hotel, an L.A. cultural touchstone, a haunted abyss, and a symbol of opulence riven by urban decay.

Mar 17, 2023 · The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles remains one of the most notorious hotels in the United States due in part to its connection to a number of mysterious deaths and unsolved murders.

Feb 10, 2021 · The infamous Cecil Hotel is the focus of a new Netflix true-crime series, premiering February 10. The show focuses on the disappearance of Elisa Lam, whose body was found in...

Feb 1, 2025 · The infamous Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles has backdropped murderers, suicides and other horrors for 100 years. One man stays behind to help.