Ren's Did You Know - The Ontario Hotel

'The Ontario Hotel, shown here along with the Ontario ...Land Office at right, opened in July 1883 and the grand hotel served visitors and potential land buyers. Built by A. W. Boggs of Riverside, the two-story hotel offered 12 rooms. Charles Frankish’s Ontario Land & Improvement Company purchased the hotel in 1886 and added an east wing in 1887, which added 24 rooms with verandas and balconies, and doubled the size of the dining room. The hotel closed in 1909 and in 1912 Frankish sold the building to build his Frankish Building on the site. The hotel was divided into two sections, with the original section moving to the southwest corner of Holt and Campus avenues to become an apartment house, but was demolished in 1932. The east wing moved to 208 West Holt, where for years it was known as the Tre-El-Een Hotel. It was demolished in 1969 to make way for a parking lot.'