Senator Hotel
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Hotel Senator
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| Location | 1121 L Street, Sacramento, California |
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| Coordinates | 38°34′39″N 121°29′31″W / 38.577574°N 121.492076°WCoordinates: 38°34′39″N 121°29′31″W / 38.577574°N 121.492076°W |
| Area | .87 acres (0.35 ha) |
| Built | 1923–1924 |
| Architect | Kenneth MacDonald and G. Albert Lansburgh |
| Architectural style | Renaissance Revival architecture |
| NRHP reference # | 79003459 |
| Added to NRHP | May 30, 1979 |
The Senator Hotel (officially Hotel Senator) (1924–1979) was a nine-story, 400-room Italian Renaissance-style hotel in Sacramento, California located at 12th and L streets across from the California State Capitol building that served as a of California political and social activity for more than 50 years. Opened in 1924, the Senator Hotel was where Arthur Samish, one of the most influential and powerful individual lobbyists in the history of California, maintained a suite during the 1930s and 1940s. President Gerald Ford spent the night at the Senator Hotel before the September 5, 1975, assassination attempt on him by cultist Manson family disciple Squeaky Fromme. Although the Senator Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in May 1979, the hotel was closed two months later and with panels placed over the windows that same year. The structure was renovated and then reopened in 1983 as an office building under the name Senator Hotel Office Building, giving lobbyists short-walking-distance access to California's state politicians.
The Senator Hotel building is divided into two main reinforced-concrete masses, each nine stories in height and connected by a lobby building. Stylistically modeled after the Palazzo Farnese in Florence, Italy and positioned to front on Sacramento's L Street, the L Street facade measures 165 feet (50 m) and includes a colonnaded archway along the entire front and side facades. When the building was opened in 1924, its archway system was covered in a peach-colored terra cotta that imitated "massive, smooth marble blocks" through deep etching and had an open front facade that served as a veranda for hotel guests. That area later was enclosed in glass.
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