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De Anza Hotel

The De Anza Hotel is a hotel

Hotel

----A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including Bathroom#Types of bathroomss and air conditioning or clima...
in San Jose, California

San Jose, California

San Jose or San Jos? is the List of cities in California city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States....
. At ten stories, it is the tallest hotel in the San Jose central business district

Central business district

A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In Australia, China , Republic of Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa, the phrase is commonly used, and is often colloquially abbreviated to "CBD"....
. Significant for its architectural

Architecture

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style, it is one of San Jose's few Zig Zag Moderne (Art Deco

Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
) buildings. The hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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The De Anza Hotel was funded by the local business community, united in an organization called the San Jose Community Hotel Corporation. The hotel took three years of planning by this group and stock

STOCK

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subscriptions were obtained from more than 200 local citizens.

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The De Anza Hotel is a hotel

Hotel

San Jose, California

Central business district

Architecture

Art Deco

National Register of Historic Places

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W. H. Weeks

William Henry Weeks was an early 20th century architect who designed many public buildings in California, including schools and many of the Carnegie libraries in Northern California....
was the building's designer and Carl Swenson was the contractor. Local business leaders emphasized that the hotel would benefit San Jose and that the modern accommodations would help attract conventions to the area. Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking is a traditional ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the first day of construction for a building or other project. Such ceremonies are often attended by dignitaries such as politicians and businessmen....
occurred on February 27, 1931, and was presided over by the corporation president, Alexander Hart

Alexander Hart

Alexander Hart was a Major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
, and many of San Jose's most prominent citizens and businessmen. It was originally planned to be called "The San Jose Hotel", but instead it was changed to be named after explorer Juan Bautista de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto was a New Spain explorer and Spanish governors of New Mexico for the Spanish Empire....
.

The facade features a 10-story central section flanked by a 9-story section on either side. These massings along with the building's zigzag

Zigzag

A zigzag is a pattern made up of small corners at variable angles, though constant within the zigzag, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular....
parapet

Parapet

A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof or architectural structure. It may serve to prevent unwanted falls over the edge or it may be a defensive, constructional or stylistic feature....
give it a stepped appearance. The first and second stories of the building house its lobby

Lobby (room)

A lobby is a room in a building which is used for entry from the outside. Sometimes referred to as a foyer or an entrance hall.Many office#Office buildings, hotels and skyscrapers go to great lengths to decorate their lobbies to create the right impression....
and mezzanine

Mezzanine

Mezzanine may refer to:* Mezzanine , an intermediate floor between main floors of a building* Mezzanine, in a theater, may refer to the lowest balcony in the theater....
. Fenestration

Fenestration

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consists mostly of simple sash, double-hung windows except for the second level of the facade, which is highlighted by a band of 12 arched windows. The relief patterns include a string course separating the first and second levels, rosettes on the second level, and an elaborate art deco design through to the final two stories. Some Mayan influences can be seen in the design details of the stepped parapet. On the west elevation is painted "Hotel De Anza" with a diver

Diving

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used to indicate a swimming pool

Swimming pool

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which is at the rear of the building within a small courtyard area.

The interior of the De Anza is distinguished by a main lobby where Art Deco elements are integrated into a predominantly Spanish Colonial Revival

Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture

The Spanish Colonial Revival Style was a United States architectural movement that came about in the early 20th century, starting in Florida as a regional expression related to both history and environment....
decorative scheme. The lobby reaches two stories in height and contains large wooden beams with stenciled colored floral patterns. Major factors of the interior design are the highly detailed wrought iron

Wrought iron

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balconies

Balcony

Balcony , a kind of platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or Corbel brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade. The traditional Malta balcony is a wooden closed balcony projecting from a wall....
, the huge wrought iron chandelier

Chandelier

A chandelier is a branched decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture with two or more arms bearing lights. Chandeliers are often ornate, containing dozens of lamp s and complex arrays of glass or crystal prisms to illuminate a room with refraction light....
and double arch doorways. To one side is a fireplace with a huge canopy that reaches to the ceiling. Interior doors are all distinguished by their colored stenciled floral designs.

By the 1970s, the hotel had become run down and was nearly demolished. Instead, the San Jose Redevelopment Agency was able to save the building and arranged for its reconstruction, which cost twenty times its initial construction price.

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