{"nrhp_refnum":"82000985","name":"Herald Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"308 Eddy St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.78413121600005,"lon":-122.41282387399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seven-story steel-frame hotel at 308 Eddy Street, on the northwest corner of Eddy and Jones Streets in San Francisco's Tenderloin hotel district, built in 1910 and designed by architect Alfred Henry Jacobs.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local significance because its steel-frame construction, size and use made it a harbinger of the area west of Union Square becoming a major downtown hotel district. It is also representative of the Renaissance Revival hotel type fashionable in San Francisco in the decade after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Its architect, Alfred Henry Jacobs, was a prominent member of the city's architectural community.","narrative":"Rising seven stories at the corner of Eddy and Jones Streets, this 1910 hotel was among the tallest and largest built in San Francisco's downtown hotel district in the decade after the 1906 earthquake and fire. It held 150 rooms and 97 baths, and its steel frame was unusual at a time when less costly masonry bearing walls were the norm. The exterior combines buff brick with cream-colored terra cotta in Renaissance-inspired motifs, including lion-head keystones and a Vitruvian wave band. Inside, the lobby retains three leaded-glass skylights, its original tiled floor and a 1930s Art Deco side room. The hotel was designed by Alfred Henry Jacobs, a San Francisco-born architect trained at MIT and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, who later designed the Curran Theater and other city buildings. The building is considered locally significant as an early sign of the neighborhood's growth as a hotel district and as a representative example of its type and period.","period_of_significance":"1910","architect_builder":"Alfred Henry Jacobs","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and nearly unaltered inside and out, with the lobby's integrity high; ground-floor storefronts and the marquee have been altered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.969253-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82000985.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000985/e7393a5409-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000985/e7393a5409-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herald_Hotel_(San_Francisco,_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:Herald_Hotel_(San_Francisco,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861155","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133500611"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/herald-hotel-82000985/"}