YMCA Hotel

Style: Chicago School
City: San Francisco, CA

The YMCA Hotel is a historic Chicago School building in the Tenderloin, designed by architect Frederick Herman Meyer. At the time it entered the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it was known colloquially as the Whitehall Apartments.

the style

Its Chicago School styling is unusual for San Francisco, a city where that Midwestern commercial idiom rarely took hold.

the architect

Frederick Herman Meyer designed the building; it's the work of his cited in the record.

significance

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the building became a contributing property to the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District when that district was listed in 2009.

nearby

Alcazar Theatre 0.2 mi · 1917
San Francisco Proper Hotel 0.2 mi · Beaux-Arts · 2017
Federal Office Building 0.2 mi · Renaissance Revival · 1934
The Old Main Library 0.3 mi · Renaissance Revival · 1917
Orpheum Building 0.3 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival · 1926
Toni Rembe Theater 0.3 mi · Neoclassical · 1909

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