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Hotel Californian (San Francisco, California)

Commercial buildings completed in 1923Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in CaliforniaNational Register of Historic Places in San FranciscoRenaissance Revival architecture in CaliforniaSpanish Revival architecture in California
Tenderloin, San Francisco
Hotel Californian (taken on 27Aug2012 13hrs33mins41secs)
Hotel Californian (taken on 27Aug2012 13hrs33mins41secs)

The Spero Hotel, originally the Hotel Californian and later the Serrano Hotel, is a historic hotel building at 403 Taylor Street in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It was designed by architect Edward E. Young and built in 1923. A four story addition designed by Alfred Henry Jacobs was completed in 1929. The 12-story hotel is at 405 Taylor Street. It underwent a $16 million renovation and became the Spero Hotel in 2018. It is listed on the listed on the National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco, California since 1998; and it is a contributing property to the National Register of Historic Places's Uptown Tenderloin Historic District since 2009.

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Hotel Californian (San Francisco, California)
O'Farrell Street, San Francisco

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N 37.785833333333 ° E -122.41027777778 °
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Hilton San Francisco Union Square

O'Farrell Street 333
94102 San Francisco
California, United States
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www3.hilton.com

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Alcazar Theatre (1911)

See Alcazar Theatre (1885) and Alcazar Theatre (1976) for two other SF theaters of the same name.The Alcazar Theatre was a 1,145 seat theatre located at 260 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, California, between Mason and Powell, built in 1911 by architects Cunningham and Politeo for producer Fred Belasco, replacing the previous Alcazar Theatre one block to the east, which was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake fire. This venue soon became one of San Francisco's leading legitimate theatres offering a wide range of productions, and like its predecessor, also housed a popular resident stock company. It was purchased in 1922 by Thomas Wilkes for $125,000 from the estates of Belasko and M.E. Mayer. With the advent of the sound film, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, after remodelling, the Alcazar became the Uptown Theater, a secondary low-price movie theater. In 1936 and 1937, it housed the Federal Theatre Project of the Works Progress Administration. In 1945, the theatre was used by the United Nations Peace Conference for some of its meetings, and afterwards reopened as the United Nations Theatre. The building was renovated once again in 1952, renamed the Alcazar Theatre, and again devoted to legitimate stage productions. The theatre was closed on December 31, 1961, and was torn down in March 1962 to make way for a parking lot for Hotel Stewart, which abutted it, but actually became the related Handlery Motor Inn.