Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A cikin shekarun 1890, James Graham Fair ya sayi ƙasar inda Fairmont San Francisco ke tsaye yanzu, otal na farko da zai ɗauki sunan Fairmont. Kusan kammala tsarin ya tsira da
girgizar kasa ta shekara ta 1906. Kodayake gobarar da ta biyo baya ta lalace sosai, an gyara otal din a karkashin idon masanin Julia Morgan kuma a karshe an bude shi a shekarar 1907. A shekara ta 1926, an ƙirƙiri Penthouse Suite tare da ɓoye ɓoye uku don samun damar zuwa gare shi.