{"nrhp_refnum":"79000470","name":"Oakland Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"260 13th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oakland","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.80241993200008,"lon":-122.26705469299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-09-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A massive eight-story U-shaped hotel occupying a full city block at 260 13th Street in Oakland, Alameda County, California, opened in December 1912 and designed by the San Francisco firm Bliss and Faville.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is significant for its architecture and its role in local history and commerce. Its lavish ground-floor public rooms are the only examples of their kind in Oakland, and from 1912 to 1943 it was the city's finest hotel. Its opening gave Oakland an important commercial stimulus.","narrative":"Occupying an entire city block at 260 13th Street in Oakland, this eight-story hotel opened on December 23, 1912. Designed by the San Francisco firm Bliss and Faville, it follows a U-shaped plan, so every guest room opens to the street. Its cream-brick exterior features arcades, a columned loggia and two domed towers. Inside, the ground floor holds an elliptical-vaulted lobby, an oak-paneled men's bar, a grill room, a Louis XVI-style dining room and a large ballroom, all richly decorated in plaster relief. Oakland business leaders and bankers backed the project after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, hoping to rival San Francisco and draw conventions. For three decades it was the city's finest hotel and a social center of the East Bay. The Army took it over in 1943 for use as a hospital, the Veterans Administration ran it until 1963, and it has been vacant since. Its interiors are described as among the city's finest.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Bliss and Faville, San Francisco; P.J. Walker (construction contract)","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant since August 1963, when the Veterans Administration ended its use of the building as a hospital; the form describes the condition as good and altered.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.415392-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/79000470.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000470/c75fbfca63-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000470/c75fbfca63-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland_Hotel_(Oakland,_CA).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:Oakland_Hotel_(Oakland,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858295","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Oakland","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60767158"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/oakland-hotel-79000470/"}