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The Californian Hotel in Sacramento opened on February tenth, 1930. Located on the southeast corner of Eighth and I streets, the eight-story hotel contained 112 rooms, a three-room penthouse on the roof, and had features included steam heat, tub baths or showers for each room, colored tile walls in bathrooms, radio connections for all rooms, running iced water, and an air-conditioning system. Designed by J. G. Little & Company, constructed by the Mission Concrete Company, and owned by Joseph M. Greenbach, the Californian Hotel cost about $350,000 and had a Spanish modernistic style of architecture, with a fireproof concrete structure and finished on the outside with buff stucco and brown painted cast stone trim for relief. The Californian Hotel was demolished in 1988. Post Card is circa 1953.
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