The hotel is listed on the Berkeley register of historic places.

[1] In 1990, 33 hostages were held at gun point at Henry's for seven hours by University of California, Berkeley student, Mehrdad Dashti, who had schizophrenia.

In 2007, the property was purchased by Joie de Vivre Hospitality for $14 million.

[9] Joie de Vivre invested $9 million in renovating the property.

However, the Graduate Hotels structures are still owned by AJ Capital Partners.

Hotel rooms feature "dictionary-covered shower curtains and bongs repurposed as bedside lamps.

The bloody mary features tomato juice made in-house and is topped off with a splash of Guinness.