User:Killiondude/Pickwick Hotel (Anaheim, California)
Pickwick Hotel | |
| Location | 225 S. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, California |
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| Coordinates | 33°50′03″N 117°54′47″W / 33.83417°N 117.91306°W |
| Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
| Built | 1926 |
| Architectural style | Mission/spanish Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 79000513[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 31, 1979 |
The Pickwick Hotel was a historic hotel in Anaheim, CA and one of the last standing historic buildings in the original 200-acre downtown Anaheim area.[2]
The hotel was constructed in 1926 across the street from City Hall and contained 49 guest rooms.[2][3] With a four-story tower built in Mission Revival style, the hotel had a large lobby and once housed the city's "social elite".[2][4] This large lobby was able to accommodate the hotel's additional use as a bus station, complete with covered platform.[2] In its later years, it was the last bus station located within the city.[3] However, once the bus terminal was closed in the mid 60s, the hotel began to fall into disrepair.[3] In its final years, the hotel was known to house transients, drug dealers, and prostitutes.[5][3] It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[4]
In 1983, the City of Anaheim began proceedings using eminent domain to purchase the hotel from its then-current owners, Herma and Frank A. Dusek in order to redevelop the area. The Duseks fought a legal battle to protect their property from government seizure and rejected the $1.1 million offer given by the city.[6] After four years in legal disputes, the city and the Duseks agreed upon a selling price of $1.87 million with the city's intentions of demolishing the building in order for new construction to take place.[4] About a dozen business and 60 people were forced to relocate from the premises, some of the residents having lived there for many years.[4][3] The City of Anaheim paid for the businesses to relocate and gave each long-term resident of the hotel $4,000.[3] In 1988 items from the building that could be salvaged were removed and the hotel was demolished.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pickwick Hotel". National Park Service. Retrieved July 22, 2019. With accompanying pictures
- ^ a b c d e f Davis, Donna (April 15, 1988). "Tenants check out; Moving day at Anaheim's Pickwick Hotel". The Orange County Register.
- ^ a b c d Serrano, Barbara (December 30, 1987). "Anaheim OKs price for historic hotel that it intends to demolish". The Orange County Register.
- ^ a b "Passing of the Pickwick". The Orange County Register. May 27, 1988.
- ^ Zoroya, Gregg (July 3, 1987). "Appellate-court ruling likely to bring down Pickwick Hotel". The Orange County Register.
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