List of deaths and violence at the Cecil Hotel (original) (raw)

Numerous incidents of deaths and violence have occurred at Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Originally opened as a middle-class hotel on December 20, 1924, in Downtown Los Angeles, 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. In 2011, the hotel's name was changed to "Stay on Main" in an effort to distance the establishment from its past.