When no private parties expressed interest in building downtown lodging, a spirited public subscription drive bankrolled this Mission Revival hotel, which was city-owned until 1940. Five-story red brick walls rise to distinctive central curvilinear parapets flanked by square corner towers. After repeal of local prohibition ordinances in 1967, the city's first bar, the Catacombs, opened
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