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Eureka Lodgings, quarters of the Emperor

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This small square is the site of Eureka Lodgings, destroyed by the fire of 1906.

Here, in a humble 9X6 furnished room on the third floor, lived, for the duration of his reign, Joshua Abraham Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

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