{"nrhp_refnum":"76000535","name":"Vallejo City Hall and County Building Branch","other_names":["Vallejo City Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"734 Marin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vallejo","county":"Solano County","state":"CA","lat":38.10274700400004,"lon":-122.25630524599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Vallejo City Hall and County Building Branch is a two-story plus basement government building at 734 Marin Street, Vallejo, Solano County, California. It was built in 1926-1927 to designs by architect Charles E. Perry.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the only remaining example of the Spanish Renaissance style in Vallejo and the surrounding area. It served for decades as the center of city business and a repository for city and county records. It was to become the Vallejo Naval and Historic Museum in 1977, continuing its public cultural use.","narrative":"Vallejo City Hall, at 734 Marin Street, was built in 1926-1927 as both the city hall and a branch of the Solano County Courthouse. Architect Charles E. Perry, who had worked for years in the San Francisco office of Willis Polk, designed it in a Spanish Renaissance style. The reinforced concrete building is faced in stucco, with a red tile roof, terrazzo floors and stairs, and an imposing original staircase in the foyer. City and county offices shared it until the late 1940s, when the county built its own facility. Later changes were modest: a 1957 rear addition matching the stucco finish, interior reworking of the basement police quarters, and a street-level front door. The nomination states that urban renewal and suburban growth left it as the only building in the area in this style. For its first fifty years it held city and many county documents, and it was slated to become the Vallejo Naval and Historic Museum in 1977.","period_of_significance":"1926-1927","architect_builder":"Charles E. Perry","architectural_style":"Spanish Renaissance (classical Spanish Renaissance Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in good condition at the time of nomination (1976), owned by the City of Vallejo and used as government offices; slated to become a museum in 1977. A later 1981 letter and inventory forms refer to it as recently vacated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.103709-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/76000535.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000535/e31a8c149a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000535/e31a8c149a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vallejo_City_Hall_and_County_Building_Branch,_734_Marin_St.,_Vallejo,_CA_4-21-2013_2-17-21_PM.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vallejo_City_Hall_and_County_Building_Branch,_734_Marin_St.,_Vallejo,_CA_4-21-2013_2-17-21_PM.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862037","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallejo_City_Hall_and_County_Building_Branch","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133548211"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/solano-county/vallejo-city-hall-and-county-building-branch-76000535/"}