Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and a California Historical Landmark, it is one of the oldest continuously operated hotels west of the Rockies.

[3] In 1863, there was a fire and the hotel was shut down for a temporary period of time.

[4] At a civic affair in San Francisco a Nevada City businessman, John J. Jackson, claimed that a meeting that took place in 1898 at the National Hotel was the creation of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

[4][5] In 2012, the hotel was the subject of an episode of Ghost Adventures.

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