The Hotel Figueroa was completely financed and built by a trailblazing group of women in 1926, a time when almost every hotel prevented women from getting a room unless they were accompanied by a man.
— The Hotel Figueroa opened in Los Angeles about six years after women won the right to vote.
"It was built to be a place for professional women," Connie Wang, Hotel Figueroa general manager, told CBS News. "She very famously rode across the country on a motorcycle to take her first job here," Wang said. Many guests come for the hotel's charm, unaware of its incredible history, such as how it was one of the first hotels to check women in without a chaperone, according to Wang."We wanted to make sure that it still had a very strong sense of time and place," Wang said.Every piece of art in the hotel was created by women.
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