Milano Hotel

The Milano Hotel, at 38300 California Highway 1, South, about a mile north of Gualala, California, was built in 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Construction was supervised by, and it was run as a hotel, saloon, and dining room, by Italian immigrant Batiste Luchinetti. It was built on cliffs facing the Pacific Ocean between Gualala and Bowens Landing, California. (Bowen's Landing was a lumber port / doghole port about 86 miles north of San Francisco. )

It survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with bottles being broken at its bar.

It is "flat front Italianate" in style.

A carriage shed and a small barn are two additional contributing buildings in the listing.