The Coleman House, the two-story boarding house and saloon (on the far left), was the first version of what later became the El Monte Hotel. In 1877, 33-year-old Charles Parr, son of Jonathan and Eliza Jane Parr, got into an argument and was murdered in front of the hotel.
Source: Hooked on Los Gatos, the Library and Museum History Project
—Provided by Los Gatos librarian Henry Bankhead
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