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'''Hotel Palomar''', still the tallest building in Santa Cruz, was designed by [[Weeks, William H.|W. H. Weeks]] and developed by [[Balich, Andy|Andrew "Andy" Balich]] on Pacific Avenue in 1928-29. | [[File:1965_Palomar.png|right]] | ||
'''Hotel Palomar''', still the tallest building in Santa Cruz, was designed by [[Weeks, William H.|W. H. Weeks]] and developed by [[Balich, Andy|Andrew "Andy" Balich]] on Pacific Avenue in 1928-29. The hotel and the adjacent Neary building remain today, unchanged from the 1965 photo at right except for the ground-floor PacAve frontage and tenants. Longtime tenants of the ground floor commercial spaces include El Palomar restaurant (pre-1989), and Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company, which moved to its current (2024) location after its previous PacAve home was damaged in the [[1989 Loma Prieta earthquake]]. The Palomar converted to a senior residential hotel | |||
*[[The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023)|''The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture'']], 4th edition (2023), chapter 5, item (37), page 153. | *[[The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023)|''The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture'']], 4th edition (2023), chapter 5, item (37), page 153. | ||
Revision as of 15:57, 23 March 2024
Hotel Palomar, still the tallest building in Santa Cruz, was designed by W. H. Weeks and developed by Andrew "Andy" Balich on Pacific Avenue in 1928-29. The hotel and the adjacent Neary building remain today, unchanged from the 1965 photo at right except for the ground-floor PacAve frontage and tenants. Longtime tenants of the ground floor commercial spaces include El Palomar restaurant (pre-1989), and Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company, which moved to its current (2024) location after its previous PacAve home was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The Palomar converted to a senior residential hotel
- The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture, 4th edition (2023), chapter 5, item (37), page 153.