Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Question: How many U.S. Presidents have stayed at Riverside’s historic Mission Inn?

Answer: Ten U.S. Presidents have visited or stayed at the Mission Inn: Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. Their portraits line the walls of what’s now called the Presidential Lounge. Two notable connections predate the Oval Office: Richard Nixon married his wife Pat at the hotel in 1940, and Ronald and Nancy Reagan honeymooned there in 1952.