The Langham Huntington

On the grounds of a thirty-acre estate in Pasadena, California, The Langham Huntington is a hotel of particular architectural and historical significance in Southern California — the original 1906 building and its Mission Revival successor of 1914 established the Langham Huntington as one of the pioneering resort hotels of the American Southwest, catering to the East Coast industrialists and European aristocracy who wintered in Pasadena during the decades when the city represented the zenith of Southern California’s social ambitions. The 380 rooms and suites are distributed through the main building and its garden additions, with the historic ballroom, the Tap Room, and the covered bridge spanning the Arroyo Seco providing the architectural heritage spaces that distinguish the property from the purpose-built hotels of the contemporary Los Angeles luxury market. The Rose Bowl, the Huntington Library and Gardens, and the old-town Pasadena arts district are within easy reach.

The Royce restaurant serves wood-fired California cuisine drawing on the extraordinary seasonal produce of the San Gabriel Valley’s farms, the Los Angeles basin’s diverse ethnic food supply chain, and the Pacific coast’s seafood in a menu that reflects the culinary geography of a city where agricultural diversity and immigrant culinary traditions produce one of the world’s most varied food environments. The Chuan Spa’s treatment programme draws on traditional Chinese medicine principles in a wellness setting of considerable depth, and the hotel’s outdoor pool and garden spaces provide a quality of landscaped retreat unusual in a metropolitan luxury hotel. The San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena provide hiking and skiing within an hour of the hotel’s gates.

The Langham Huntington’s relationship with Pasadena’s cultural community includes its long association with the Huntington Library’s academic and artistic programming and the Norton Simon Museum’s collection of European and Asian art, both within close range of the hotel’s estate.