{"nrhp_refnum":"94001197","name":"Hotel Glendale","other_names":["Glendale Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"701 E. Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glendale","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.146543552000026,"lon":-118.24687097799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-10-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story brick and reinforced concrete apartment hotel at 701 East Broadway in downtown Glendale, California, built in 1924-25 to designs by Arthur G. Lindley and Charles R. Selkirk, with Kinne & Westerhouse as contractors.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is Glendale's largest and best preserved example of Beaux Arts Classical Revival commercial architecture. It was an early California example of an apartment hotel that housed short-term guests and permanent residents on different floors. It is also presented as the best architectural expression of Glendale's early-1920s development boom.","narrative":"Rising six stories at the corner of Broadway and Glendale Avenue, this L-shaped apartment hotel was completed in July 1925 during Glendale's rapid growth. Its brown brick upper floors sit above a smooth concrete base, and the design draws on Beaux Arts Classicism with Spanish Eclectic touches, including ornate brackets, cast concrete balustrades and cartouches. Local investors organized through a civic advancement association pursued the project for several years and overcame repeated financing failures before construction began in 1924. Architects Arthur G. Lindley and Charles R. Selkirk, who also designed the Alex Theater, planned the building. The upper floors separated short-term guests from permanent residents in apartment suites, an early California example of this arrangement. The hotel never succeeded commercially, yet it was the city's largest building of its time and only the second to exceed four stories. It is listed for its architecture. Storefronts at street level have been remodeled, and some original decoration has been lost.","period_of_significance":"1925","architect_builder":"Lindley, Arthur G. and Selkirk, Charles R., Architects; Kinne and Westerhouse, Contractors","architectural_style":"Late 19th/20th Century Revivals: Beaux Arts Classicism","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as an apartment hotel with ground-floor specialty shops and a cafe; the exterior is largely intact, though the first-floor storefronts, cornice and parapet have been altered and the interior extensively remodeled.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.500486-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/94001197.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001197/8e851844d0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001197/8e851844d0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Minnaert","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GlendaleHotel2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnaert</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:GlendaleHotel2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859222","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Glendale","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28058854"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/hotel-glendale-94001197/"}