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Building History

Financed by Hattie Clayton Gardiner (1855-1929), daughter of a physician, Dr. Marvin F. Clayton (1826-1892), the Hotel Clayton opened in 1911.Clayton had operated thePacific Water Care and Health Institute at 7th and L Streets nearby. The Hotel Clayton was sold in 1939 and renamed the "Hotel Marshall" honoring James Wilson Marshall (1810-1885), the man who discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, on the American River on 01/24/1848.

By 2014, the Hotel Marshall housed those who could not find single-room occupancy space elsewhere, including indigents, mentally-ill individuals, parolees, sex offenders, and addicts of various kinds. The last 57 of these inhabitants were evicted in late 2014. The interior had deteriorated significantly, and income could not be generated to pay for needed repairs. Development of the nearby Golden 1 Center (opened next door in 2016) triggered new speculation in buildings surrounding the arena, including the Hotel Marshall. The Hyatt hotel chain announced its plans to redevelop the Marshall and a neighboring apartment building into a high-rise branch of its new Centric brand.

In 2017, the Downtown Sacramento Partnership web site discussed changes that would occur to the Hotel Marshall: "The long-time blighted 105-year-old Marshall hotel and the neighboring Jade Apartments will soon transform into the Hyatt’s newest lifestyle brand, Hyatt Centric. Sacramento joins an elite list of 15 world-renowned cities – including Miami, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Paris – that were selected as expansion sites for the new brand over the next two to three years. Similar to the charm and substantial Sacramento context the Citizen Hotel has captured so well, the Hyatt Hotel project will turn the single room occupancy hotel into a 11-story, 159 room boutique hotel that will embody the quintessential Sacramento lifestyle. As it stands now, the vacant single room occupancy hotel has been long neglected with most of the interior beyond preservation. The project will retain the historic use of the hotel with reconfigured floor plans to accommodate current hotel standards. The project will also retain and rehabilitate two significant, character-defining street facades. The original ground level retail bays will be rehabilitated with modern storefront systems and materials sympathetic to the original patterns and design, turning this current eye-sore into the stylish hotel it was born to be." (See Downtown Sacramento Partnership, "New Hyatt Centric brand proposed for Marshall Hotel," accessed 07/11/2017.) The neighboring Jade Apartments would be demolished, and on its site, a new 11-story block will be connected to the Hotel Marshall. According to the Downtown Sacramento Partnership, the new Hyatt Centric would contain 103,979 square feet, of which 6,546 would be devoted to first-floor commercial usage. It would be one of 13 Hyatt Centric hotels in the world, joining others in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Long Beach, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Key West, FL, Miami Houston, Washington, D.C., Park City, UT, and Paris.

The Hotel Marshall had been declared an historic landmark in Sacramento, and the city's historic preservation commission required the developers to follow certain guidelines. The Sacramento Business Journal stated: "In approving the project, the commission did set some conditions. The developer must re-use as much material as possible from the interior of the building, or to allow others to use it. The commissioners also suggested re-using the old-growth lumber in the building for finishes or furniture in the hotel." (See Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal.com, "City allows developers to remake Marshall Hotel into a Hyatt next to downtown arena," accessed 07/11/2017.)

Building Notes

During the mid-twentieth century, the Hotel Marshall maintained the Clayton Club, a nightclub featuring jazz acts.

The Hotel Clayton was named a City of Sacramento Landmark in 1982.