{"nrhp_refnum":"79003458","name":"Palace Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"272 N. State St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ukiah","county":"Mendocino County","state":"CA","lat":39.15093273700006,"lon":-123.20838503499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-10-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of four connected brick and concrete hotel structures at 272 North State Street in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, built between 1891 and 1929. The original brick hotel dates to 1891, with additions in 1915 and 1929 and a second structure from a few years after the hotel.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the hotel as Ukiah's finest surviving 1890s brick building and its first \"plush\" hotel, closely tied to the town's railroad-era growth. The four parts each reflect their own period, including a 1929 addition with Bauhaus influence. The hotel is also described as the only building of its era in town still serving its original purpose.","narrative":"Palace Hotel at 272 North State Street in Ukiah is a group of four connected structures built between 1891 and 1929. The original three-story brick hotel replaced an earlier hotel lost to fire and is described as the finest surviving brick building of Ukiah's first major growth period. Its features include cast-iron columns, a cast-iron canopy with Tiffany glass inserts, double-hung wood windows, and a ceramic tile lobby floor. A small brick shop, a 1915 brick addition and a 1929 reinforced concrete addition with Bauhaus influence followed. Ukiah's growth came with the arrival of the railroad, and the hotel housed the merchants and tourists who arrived by train. It lodged two California governors and film actors, and members of the Sandelin family ran it from 1904 for decades. The hotel is described as the only building of its era in town still serving its original purpose, and as a local source of pride.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian brick commercial building (1891) with a 1929 addition showing Bauhaus influence","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent, good and deteriorated. The restaurant and bar had reopened, and rehabilitation was planned to restore the facades and return the upper floors to hotel rooms.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.290242-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/79003458.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003458/218c9cf158-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003458/218c9cf158-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Library of Congress / Kongresa Biblioteko de Usono Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2017703040 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/mrg/00900/00926a.tif Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00926","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palace_Hotel_(1891),_State_Street,_Ukiah,_Kalifornio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress / Kongresa Biblioteko de Usono Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2017703040 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/mrg/00900/00926a.tif Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00926</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palace_Hotel_(1891),_State_Street,_Ukiah,_Kalifornio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859817","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133306834"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/mendocino-county/palace-hotel-79003458/"}