The Fairmont San Francisco is an iconic hotel atop one of the city's most famous hills. Open since 1907, it's been a popular choice for presidents, dignitaries, and movie stars.

Tony Bennett debuted his famous song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," at the Fairmont in 1962. In 1945, delegates from 40 countries around the world met in the hotel’s Garden Room to draft ...

A historic San Francisco hotel that has hosted the likes of President John F. Kennedy and Prince Charles is up for sale after a plan to convert part of it into luxury condominiums failed.

The Fairmont Hotel, one of the most famous hotels in San Francisco, Calif is being put up for sale. Brant Ward/The Chronicle The lobby of the Fairmont Hotel Tuesday June 14, 2011.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- It's billed as California's largest two-story gingerbread house and you can walk through it; a holiday tradition that's returned to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel.

The Fairmont San Francisco hotel in the Nob Hill neighborhood has been dubbed the “White House of the West.” It’s a fitting name, considering nearly every living president has stayed there ...

San Francisco’s historic Fairmont Hotel has survived earthquakes, fires and a century of economic ups and downs, but its owners are pinning its survival on a new plan: condos.

The Fairmont Hotel, a landmark in downtown San Jose, filed for bankruptcy on Friday and closed its doors -- but will reopen and resume operations within two to three months.

There’s still time to take a figurative bite out of San Francisco’s tastiest piece of architecture: the Fairmont Hotel’s larger-than-life gingerbread house. On display through New Year’s ...