Tinted postcard of the art deco Monterey Hotel in Janesville. The hotel originally opened February 15, 1930, as one of the finest hotels in the region, but soon felt victim to the Great Depression when the company that issued the building's bonds went bankrupt. Local investors bought the Monterey in 1936, and it and its restaurant (later called the Orleans), flourished through the 1950s. Guests included John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, the King of Siam, Eleanor Roosevelt, Louis Armstrong, and Henry Luce. The Monterey struggled through the 1960s and 1970s under a new partnership. In the mid-1970s, a new owner cleaned up the hotel, but the 1983 fire in the neighboring Jeffris Theater, filled the hotel with smoke and killed a resident. In 1989, Archie Johnson sold the Monterey and the Orleans to a San Francisco realty firm that resold it to a group of California doctors who declared it bankrupt. The building is still standing but unoccupied in 2005.