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Overview

The New Atlantic Hotel had 105 rooms in 1889, and had been in business for at least thrity-three years by that time at the intersection of Pacific Street and Kearny Street.

Building History

John Steinmann managed the New Atlantic Hotel at 181 Pacific near Kearny Street in 1856..(See Colville's San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing October, 1856, Vol. I, p. 160.) An earlier establishment, named the "Atlantic Hotel," was in business by 1852, at 10 Commercial Street in San Francisco. It was run by Frederick Ludley at that time. (See A. W. Morgan & Co.'s San Francisco City Directory, September, 1852, p. 114A.)

Between 1860 and 1871, at least, Buchholz and Kock, two German-American immigrants, operated the New Atlantic Hotel, which had its main entrance at 624 Pacific Street. (See Langley's San Francisco, California, Directory of 1860.p. 359 and Langley's San Francisco, California, Directory of 1871, p. 748.)

In 1889, Claus Kock and W.F. Hoffman managed the New Atlantic Hotel at 207 Montgomery Avenue (later Columbus Avenue) at Kearny Street in San Francisco, CA. An advertisement for the establishment said of it: "The Hotel is situated within one block of the U.S. Land Office and U.S. Surveyor-General's Office; also within one block of the Old City Hall, Supreme Court, and the Superior Courts; within two blocks of the Post Office and Custom House. Street cars for all parts of the city pass the hotel every minute. The New Atlantic Hotel was built in the best improved style, as is in every way the finest hotel in San Francisco for the price. It has 105 rooms, all elegantly furnished. The building is only three stories, of brick, and in every way earthquake proof." The advertisement's illustration appears to indicate that the hotel exapnded into other existing buildings on either side of it. (See New Atlantic Hotel advertisement, Langley's San Francisco, California, Directory for 1889, p. 1487.)

Building Notes

In 1899, a beer and music hall operated on the west side of the first floor, complete with a stage and some scenery. In the building's center, the New Atlantic Hotel's office, registration area and lobby stood. The hotel lobby had a stairway on the west wall. To the east of this, was a triangular commercial space that had the street addresses 201, 203, 205 and 205 1/2 Montgomery Avenue. This triangular section also had a staircase.

PCAD id: 25830