Adventure 003, Site 062-Hotel California

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Capture California, the Game-2013
Adventure: 003, Site 062-Hotel California
National Registry of Historic Places ID: 04000333
Local Registry ID: 174


Team: YOLT
Date:  September 15, 2013
Location:

Coordinates: 36°44′03″N, 119°47′17″W

Address: 851 Van Ness, Fresno, CA

Description:
Date Built: 1923
Architect: R. F. Felchlin & H. Rafael Lake



This building is one of those sights you see throughout the downtown area of Fresno It pokes its head through the trees or down a street. The hotel which used to be the place to be in Fresno, now is only remanent of its former self. To know more about it, see our blog from last year.

Hotel California

Hotel California (1923)

851 Van Ness Avenue
R. F. Felchlin & H. Rafael Lake, Architects
Italian Renaissance Revival

The Hotel California was constructed in downtown Fresno as a luxury hotel for city visitors and as a meeting place for city residents. Designed by H. Rafael Lake and constructed by R. F. Felchlin & Company, the building immediately became a symbolic landmark for the growing prosperity of the City of Fresno. In the ensuing years, the Hotel Californian gained a reputation as the best hotel between San Francisco and Los Angeles, and hosted many famous individuals and important events. It remains emblematic of Fresno’s prosperity in the 1920s and is an outstanding example of the type of development that occurred in California’s Central Valley cities wishing to promote a strong sense of their success and urbanization during this period.

Back of the Hotel California

References:

• Guide to Historic Fresno
  
• Wikipedia
  
• NoeHill
  
• National Registry of Historic Places: Documentation and Pictures
  

Overall Landmark References:

• State of California Historical Resources (CHR)
  
• National Registry of Historical Places (NRHP)
  
• NoeHill (NOE)
  
• Guide to Historic Fresno