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Photograph of Mayfair Hotel
Photograph by Einbierbitte, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mayfair Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 115 E. 3rd St., Pomona, 91766
  • When was it listed? July 2017
  • Category. building
  • Census division. East San Gabriel Valley
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • Architect. Meyer & Holler
  • National Register reference number. 100001382 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1897 to 1982

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Mayfair Hotel, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet covering Mayfair Hotel, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

508 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 508 fires within 5 miles of Mayfair Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,067 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 62 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined298
Arson/incendiarism62
Equipment and vehicle use45
Smoking42
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Debris and open burning16
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Fireworks4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named
9 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mayfair Hotel: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Claremont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
ElmiraGoldPast Producer
Chino PlantClayProducer
Pomona Brick CoClayProspectSedimentary
Pomona Brick Co.ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pomona, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 1998: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1998Flash FloodPomona-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPomona-no account filed
September 1998Funnel CloudPomona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

19 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Pomona Fox Theaterunder 500 feet1982
Pomona YMCA Building0.2 miles1986
Edison Historic District0.3 miles1986
Pomona City Stable0.6 miles2004
Lincoln Park Historic District0.8 miles2004
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School0.9 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100001382 in Record Group 79.
Los Angeles CountyAll 616 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.