{"nrhp_refnum":"92001718","name":"Cloyne Court Hotel","other_names":["Cloyne Court"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2600 Ridge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berkeley","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.87567529000006,"lon":-122.25818701999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-12-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large three- and four-story, U-shaped shingled residential hotel at 2600 Ridge Road in Berkeley, California, built in 1904 and designed by John Galen Howard. It was later converted to a single-room occupancy student dormitory.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an exceptional, largely intact example of the First Bay Tradition, one of few remaining large shingled multi-residential buildings of that type in the Bay Area. It was designed by the University of California's supervising architect and is tied to the early history of the University and Berkeley, including a stay by physicist Ludwig Boltzmann in 1905.","narrative":"Cloyne Court, at 2600 Ridge Road in Berkeley, is a large U-shaped residential hotel built in 1904 one block north of the University of California campus. John Galen Howard, the university's supervising architect, designed it with a symmetrical Beaux Arts plan beneath a plain exterior of unpainted brown shingles over a wood frame, with a hipped roof and open eaves. Its only ornament is a set of carved wood brackets at the entrance. The wings enclose a private courtyard, while the street sides present a smooth, rectangular face. The nomination describes it as an exceptional example of the First Bay Tradition and one of the few large shingled multi-residential buildings of that style left in the Bay Area. It originally housed faculty, graduate students and others connected with the university. The Pierce family ran it as a hotel until 1946, when a student cooperative took over. The exterior remains largely original, though interior hallways were added in the 1970s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Galen Howard (architect)","architectural_style":"Other: San Francisco Bay Tradition (First Bay Tradition)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Interior adapted from hotel to single-room occupancy student dormitory; exterior essentially original but in only fair condition. Leased to a student co-op until 2005.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.498174-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/92001718.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001718/3df398bf57-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001718/3df398bf57-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Kirk Abbott (Coro at en.wikipedia)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CloyneCt1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirk Abbott (Coro at en.wikipedia)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CloyneCt1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858188","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloyne_Court_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5136066"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/cloyne-court-hotel-92001718/"}