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Overview

Union City historian Timothy Swenson has indicated that the Brooklyn Hotel may have begun operations in either 1854 or 1855. (See email from Timothy Swenson to Alan Michelson, 07/15/2015.)

Building History

Swenson, of the Washington Township Museum of Local History, has written this about the Alvarado Hotel: "Built in the 1860's, the Alvarado Hotel was one of the first hotels in Alvarado. The hotel was all wooden with a wrap around porch. It catered to local duck hunters during the duck hunting season. In 1947, it was modernized into a Mission Revival style, with stucco and the removal of the gabled roof and porch. A picture from the 1860's shows that it have started life as the Brooklyn Hotel." (See email from Timothy Swenson to Alan Michelson, 07/14/2015. Mr. Swenson has done significant research on Union City, and PCAD thank him for passing it on to us.) The Henningsen Brothers operated the Alvarado Hotel c. 1910.

Building Notes

The Alvarado Hotel, in 1910, was a cross-gabled, two floor building lit by long, thin double-hung windows. On its first floor, a long covered porch stretched the length of two sides of its front facade. The hotel looked as if it had an addition on its rear.

Alteration

The Alvarado Hotel in Alvarado, CA, suffered significant damage in the April 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. As Tim Swenson has indicated, the Alvarado Hotel underwent a drastic exterior renovation in the 1947, becoming a Spanish Colonial Revival building.

PCAD id: 5796