{"nrhp_refnum":"89000204","name":"Green Hotel","other_names":["Hitchcock Hotel","Shafter Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"530 James St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shafter","county":"Kern County","state":"CA","lat":35.501623761000076,"lon":-119.28602762999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame hotel at 530 James Street in Shafter, Kern County, California, built in 1913 by the Kern County Land Company, with a later storage outbuilding from the late 1930s.","why_significant":"The hotel was built by the Kern County Land Company to house prospective land buyers and serve as a center for colonizing the new town of Shafter. It was one of the first buildings in the community. The form also notes its vernacular Craftsman and classical design and its high level of integrity.","narrative":"Green Hotel, also called the Hitchcock Hotel or Shafter Hotel, is a two-story wood frame building at 530 James Street in Shafter, California. The Kern County Land Company built it in 1913 to accommodate prospective buyers and to act as a center for its colonization of the new townsite. Early residents recalled it as one of the first buildings in the community. The rectangular building has a gable roof with wide overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails, a front porch with tapered posts, clapboard siding on the first story, shingles above, and Palladian attic vents. Its style is described as vernacular, with classical and Craftsman influences. In 1938 the hotel was rotated 90 degrees on its corner lot to face another street, and part of the porch was enclosed as a small office. Despite these changes, the form describes the building as retaining a high level of integrity, with a symmetrical plan and largely original interior finishes.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Kern County Land Company (builder)","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman; vernacular with classical and craftsman influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as work in progress (rehabilitation planned); the building is described as neglected but structurally sound, with a fence added recently for security.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.001684-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/89000204.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000204/c8a08a4955-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000204/c8a08a4955-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bobak Ha'Eri","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010-1227-GreenHotel-Shafter.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobak Ha'Eri</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010-1227-GreenHotel-Shafter.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858855","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14682069"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/kern-county/green-hotel-89000204/"}