{"nrhp_refnum":"79003459","name":"Hotel Senator","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1121 L St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.577717138000025,"lon":-121.49214272399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hotel Senator is a nine-story reinforced concrete hotel at 1121 L Street (corner of 12th and L Streets) in downtown Sacramento, California, built in 1923-24 and designed by Kenneth MacDonald with G. Albert Lansburgh.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is architecturally significant as an early 20th century adaptation of Italian Renaissance motifs, borrowed in part from the Farnese Palace in Rome. It is also historically significant as a meeting place for legislators and state lobbyists near the State Capitol, and as a social center for Sacramento that hosted four people who were or became U.S. Presidents.","narrative":"Hotel Senator is a nine-story reinforced concrete hotel at 12th and L Streets in downtown Sacramento, completed in 1923-24. Architect Kenneth MacDonald worked with theater architect G. Albert Lansburgh, and engineer Maurice Couchot, an early advocate of reinforced concrete, consulted on the structure. The design draws in part on the Farnese Palace in Rome. A peach-colored terra cotta arcade runs along the ground floor, and pink cement plaster covers the upper floors. The original interior featured a skylit lobby with a balcony, a Florentine Dining Room and a Roman Banquet Hall. A 1954 remodeling altered much of the interior and enclosed the arcade, and the Renaissance window hoods and belt course were removed. The nomination describes the hotel as a key meeting place for legislators and lobbyists because of its closeness to the State Capitol. Lobbyists for oil, liquor, railroad and utility interests lived and worked there for decades. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter all stayed at the hotel.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Kenneth MacDonald, Jr., Maurice Couchot, G. Albert Lansburgh","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance adaptation, modeled in part on the Farnese Palace in Rome","criteria":[],"status_note":"Form marks the property as occupied and privately owned, in commercial use. The interior was extensively remodeled in 1954, but the form says it retains its basic original integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.071037-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/79003459.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003459/ffdbb24ca6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003459/ffdbb24ca6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"NoeHill","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Senator,_1121_L_Street,_Sacramento,_California,_2009.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">NoeHill</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:Hotel_Senator,_1121_L_Street,_Sacramento,_California,_2009.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860602","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7450051"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/hotel-senator-79003459/"}