{"nrhp_refnum":"94001162","name":"Hotel Charlotte","other_names":["Hotel Charlotte &amp","Cafe","Restaurant"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"18736 Main St. (CA 120)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Groveland","county":"Tuolumne County","state":"CA","lat":37.839155007000045,"lon":-120.23032225799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame hotel built in 1921 with an attached single-story restaurant added circa 1927-28, on Main Street (State Highway 120) in the business district of Groveland, Tuolumne County, California. Frank Ferretti built both.","why_significant":"The hotel is the only hostelry established in Groveland during the Hetch Hetchy construction era (1914-1929) that survives today. It operated nearly continuously from 1921 and became the town's most prominent hostelry in the 1930s and 1940s. Together with the restaurant, it reflects both the Hetch Hetchy construction days and the quieter tourism years that followed.","narrative":"Hotel Charlotte is a two-story wood frame hotel on Main Street in Groveland, California, with a smaller restaurant building attached on its west side. The hotel was built in 1921 and the restaurant around 1927-28, both by builder Frank Ferretti. Their false fronts, balcony and stucco and corrugated metal surfaces reflect remodeling in the 1930s, and a rear addition was made in the 1970s. The property matters because it is the only hotel founded in Groveland during the Hetch Hetchy water project years that still survives. It briefly housed a few project laborers, then outlasted the construction crews and became the town's leading hostelry in the 1930s and 1940s. It was run by Charlotte De Ferrari, an Italian-born businesswoman who owned it from 1921 to 1948 and was known for her Sunday ravioli and chicken dinners. Together the buildings help preserve the early twentieth century character of Groveland's central street.","period_of_significance":"1921 to 1944","architect_builder":"Ferretti, Frank","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are both hotel and restaurant; the form describes the hotel and restaurant as operating, with several remodelings over time.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.667206-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/94001162.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001162/8f8fcf0907-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001162/8f8fcf0907-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"NoeHill","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Charlotte_in_Groveland_California_December_2006.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">NoeHill</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_Charlotte_in_Groveland_California_December_2006.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862282","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Charlotte_(Groveland,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14682368"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/tuolumne-county/hotel-charlotte-94001162/"}