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Shown is a postcard of the Hotel Clayton, located on the corner of Seventh and L streets in circa 1930. The hotel opened in 1911 and acted as a key music venue during Sacramento's jazz era from the 1920s into the 1950s. It remained under the name until it reopened in 1948 after a $140,000 renovation program as the Hotel Marshall, named after James Marshall whose discovery of gold at Coloma in 1848 kicked off the California Gold Rush. The renaming and renovations came after a devastating fire on April 5, 1948, which had injured 14 persons and caused the death of painter Howard Baker who had been working for the hotel. The hotel continued as Hotel Marshall until it finally closed its doors in 2015. The building had faded for decades before its closing, garnering a reputation as a run-down and seedy hotel. This reputation was further exacerbated when it became known that the notorious Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, had stayed at the hotel in 1993. The building reopened in 2021 as the Hyatt Centric, renovating the building from its former five-story self to a whopping eleven-stories. The brick exterior of the Hotel Clayton/Marshall was preserved and restored.
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