The plans for a luxury hotel were anulled by the town in October of 2009 and the developers have lost the deal to renovate. The polished Rispin Hotel website that would have handled the reservations has been shut down. The property is slated to become the site for Capitola’s new library.

I’ve been inside this house extensively and have taken 100′s of photos for the past 10-years, some of which are kindly posted here with detailed histories:

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/history/rispin-interior.htm

It seems anyone associated with this house seems to lose assets, it has always had a heavy energy and was a maze of stairways and halls. The Poor Clare nuns who used the house as a monastery fled after 10-years moving out through a tube of black fabric from house to trucks. There used to be a chapel built onto the structure off to the left in the aerial photo. The place has got some history to it.

Rispin’s wife Annette generally stayed in her San Francisco home and he also had a son Allen who passed away at 45. Mother, son, father all died within 6-years of each other in the 40′s.