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Building History

An earlier hotel by the same name operated on the corner of 14th and Clay Street in 1907. (See Oakland, California, City Directory, 1907, p. 1209.)

The Hotel Touraine #2 opened at the corner of Clay and 16th Streets in 1915. Henry H. Meyers designed the 108-room hotel.

A well-known "Hotel Touraine" opened in Boston, MA, in 1897, and gained the distinction of being one of the first to maintain its own library for guests' use. It was designed by the firm of Walter Thacher Winslow (1843-1909) and George Homans Wetherell (1854-1930), and was said to have been inspired by the 16th century French architecture and the Chateau of Blois. (See "Hotel Touraine," Boston Globe, 09/08/1897, p. 4. The same article appeared in the Chicago Tribune: "Hotel Touraine," Chicago Tribune, 09/08/1897, p. 7.) After this, other hotels with the same name opened across the US, including in Oakland, Buffalo, NY, and Brooklyn, NY, among other cities.

Alteration

The Touraine Partners financed a seismic renovation of the single-room-occupancy hotel. According to the website of BBI Construction, the construction firm in involved in the upgrade, "The structural work involved attaching tubular steel bracing to existing steel and adding reinforcement steel and gunite to the walls. The project also included mechanical, plumbing, and electrical work, as well as extensive refinishing." (See BBI Construction.com, "Touraine Hotel," accessed 07/12/2021.) Muller and Caulfield Architects worked with BBI on this project.

PCAD id: 24049