{"nrhp_refnum":"81000174","name":"Hotel Stockton","other_names":["Public Assistance Offices,County of San Joaquin"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"133 E. Weber Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stockton","county":"San Joaquin County","state":"CA","lat":37.953992491000065,"lon":-121.28942135999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-04-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large five-story Mission Revival hotel building at 133 E. Weber Avenue in Stockton, California, occupying an entire block beside Hunter Plaza. It opened in 1910 and was designed by Stockton architect Edgar B. Brown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a well-executed, large-scale example of Mission Revival architecture and the first known use of a steel reinforced concrete frame in the San Joaquin Valley. It is also tied to Stockton's commercial life as a leading hotel and to local government, having housed city offices from 1912 to 1926 and later county offices and a temporary courthouse.","narrative":"Occupying a full block in downtown Stockton, this 252-room hotel opened in 1910 and was designed by local architect Edgar B. Brown. Its Mission Revival design includes a five-story curved gable, domed towers, arcaded ground-floor storefronts and a hipped roof of sheet metal made to resemble red mission tile. Built on 1,777 wooden piles over a former part of the Stockton Channel, it is the first known structure in the San Joaquin Valley with a steel reinforced concrete frame. A roof garden pavilion was added two years after opening. The hotel was a social center, known for its dining rooms, a lobby fireplace in an Indian motif, and visiting stage performers. From 1912 to 1926 it served as Stockton City Hall, and from 1960 to 1964 as a temporary courthouse. Closed as a hotel in 1960, it has been county-owned since 1976 and houses public assistance offices.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Edgar B. Brown","architectural_style":"Mission Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned by the County of San Joaquin since 1976 and used to house county public assistance offices; the hotel closed in 1960 and the bar and restaurant in 1966. Condition is described as excellent to good, with only minor alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.341167-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/81000174.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000174/d7087e322d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000174/d7087e322d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michael Aivaliotis","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Stockton_-_Stockton,_CA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Aivaliotis</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_Stockton_-_Stockton,_CA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861391","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Stockton","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15225880"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-joaquin-county/hotel-stockton-81000174/"}