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Building History

R.B. Woodward managed Woodward's Whatcheer Hotel at 119-121 Sacramento Street in San Francisco, CA, in 1855. As noted in a newspaper advertisement in the Shasta Daily Courier in 1855, the hotel operated on Sacramento Street "between Sansome and Montgomery Streets in the immediate vicinity of the Nicaragua and Mail Steamship Company offices." Board per day cost $1.00. Lodging per night cost 50 cents, 75 cents or $1.00. Lodging per week ranged in price from $3, $4, $5, and $6. Lodging in single rooms was $1.00. Free baths were offered to all guests. (See Woodward's Whatcheer Hotel, San Francisco, advertisement, Shasta Daily Courier, 01/06/1855, p. 4.) If an illustration in this advertisement was accurate, the hotel had three floors, the front facade’s first floor lit with a succession of five fanlights. A cast-iron balcony projected between the first and second floors. The five windows lining the second and third floors were all trabeated. A cornice graced the parapet line.

Signs on the first floor windows advertised the hotel's sitting room, bathrooms and barber's room.

PCAD id: 25269