{"nrhp_refnum":"78000744","name":"Travelers' Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"428 J St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.581698655000025,"lon":-121.50044001899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-10-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story, E-shaped hotel building at 428 J Street in Sacramento, California, opened in May 1914 and designed by the firm Cuff & Diggs with Ransome Concrete Company as general contractor.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is locally significant as an early concrete-and-steel building and an example of the construction methods of Ernest Ransome, a concrete engineering pioneer whose other early California works have mostly been demolished. It also records the architects, the Marsh Investment Company that developed it, and its role as a fine, modern hotel of its day.","narrative":"Opened in May 1914 at 428 J Street in Sacramento, this six-story hotel was considered one of the finest and most modern on the Pacific Coast. Its E-shaped plan, copied from the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, gave all 226 rooms an outside view. The walls are faced in locally made brown brick over a reinforced concrete and steel frame, a method not yet widely accepted at the time. Amenities included dust and laundry chutes, a central vacuum system, circulating ice water, a marble-floored banquet room seating 500, and mezzanine sample rooms for traveling salesmen. Cuff & Diggs designed the building, the Marsh Investment Company developed it, and Ransome Concrete Company built it. The nomination ties the structure to Ernest Ransome, an innovator in reinforced concrete whose early California works have largely been demolished. The exterior and main public spaces remain only slightly altered, and the property was listed as locally significant.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Cuff & Diggs (Clarence C. Cuff and Maury I. Diggs), architects; Ransome Concrete Company, general contractor","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The form checks the status as unoccupied and fair condition; the exterior and public lobby areas are described as altered only slightly. Later text says the exterior remains as built and the concrete and steel construction is still sound.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.394376-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000744.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000744/db8fdda2e9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000744/db8fdda2e9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Publichall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Travelers_Hotel_-_Sacramento,_CA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Publichall</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:Travelers_Hotel_-_Sacramento,_CA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860678","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133441335"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/travelers-hotel-78000744/"}