{"nrhp_refnum":"82002196","name":"Hotel Green","other_names":["Castle Green Apartments"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"99 S. Raymond Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pasadena","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.14415576300007,"lon":-118.14954515599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-03-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hotel Green, now known as Castle Green, is a six-storey steel-framed brick hotel building at 99 South Raymond Avenue in Pasadena, California, opened January 16, 1899 and designed by Frederick L. Roehrig. It is part of a larger hotel complex that includes a 1903 addition and an older 1887 block.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the few grand nineteenth-century hotels in California to survive, and one of the state's largest resort hotels in its time. It also helped foster the social, cultural and economic growth of Pasadena in the 1890s and early 1900s. Its imaginative blend of eclectic styles, including Moorish and Islamic motifs, is presented as a significant statement in southern California architecture.","narrative":"Castle Green, originally part of the Hotel Green complex, is a six-storey steel-framed brick building on South Raymond Avenue in Pasadena. Designed by Frederick L. Roehrig and opened in January 1899, it rises to a varied roofline of towers, domes and red tile, with Moorish horseshoe arches, terra cotta ornament and two semi-circular towers at the south end that suggest a medieval castle. The hotel grew from an unfinished 1887 project by developer Edward C. Webster, which Colonel George G. Green completed and expanded. It became one of the largest resort hotels in California and helped draw wealthy visitors and settlers to Pasadena. Converted to apartments decades ago, its interior still keeps a mosaic-floored lobby, a cage elevator and an ornate Moorish parlor. A remnant of the pedestrian bridge that once crossed Raymond Avenue now shelters the entrance. It was listed as one of the few surviving grand nineteenth-century hotels in the state.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 and 1900- (date fields partly garbled; specific date: opening Jan. 16, 1899)","architect_builder":"Frederick L. Roehrig","architectural_style":"Eclectic blend of styles, with Moorish/Islamic, medieval castle and Louis Sullivan-like influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Castle Green was converted to apartments over fifty years before the nomination and is used as private residences; the adjoining 1903 addition is a HUD housing facility for senior citizens. Exterior largely unchanged; Castle Green's public ground-floor rooms remain nearly original.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.427064-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82002196.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002196/541688607e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002196/541688607e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detroit_Photographic_Company_(0025)_-_Hotel_Green,_Pasadena,_California.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83001200","name":"Old Pasadena Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/california/old-pasadena-historic-district-83001200/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859224","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Green","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5911551"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/hotel-green-82002196/"}