Oakland Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The Hotel Oakland is a historic Renaissance Revival style building in Oakland, California. From 1943 to 1963, it was a hospital for the United States Army and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.”
Wikipedia article Hotel Oakland, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Alameda County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 260 13th St., Oakland, 94612
When was it listed? September 1979
Category. building
Census division. Oakland
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
Architect. Bliss & Faville, Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
National Register reference number. 79000470 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1895 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Oakland Hotel, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Oakland Hotel, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Oakland Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 285 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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/undetermined	170
Arson/incendiarism	28
Smoking	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	4

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	not named
9 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Santa Clara Unit	SMALL
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	not named
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Oakland Hotel: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Silver, Sulfur, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alum	Sulfur, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Kaiser Industries Corp	Clay	Producer
Alma	Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Silver	Occurrence	1892
Alum	Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Ada Sand and Gravel Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kaiser Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kaiser Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Moller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sanderling Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 hail, 4 flood, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2017	Hail	Oakland	$5,000,000	Damage dollar amounts is a low estimate. Impacts are not fully known, but any individual car crash would likely exceed this amount.
December 1996	Heavy Rain	Oakland	$1,000,000	no account filed
December 1996	Heavy Rain	Oakland	$1,000,000	no account filed
December 2025	Flash Flood	Oakland	-	Vehicle stuck in three feet of water on westbound Interstate 580 west of 35th Avenue.
January 2020	Flood	Oakland	-	Roadway flooding at I-580 W and Coolidge Ave off ramp. Number 1 lane flooded from Coolidge to Grand.
January 2020	Flood	Oakland	-	Roadway flooding at WB-580 and Coolidge, slow lane flooded.
January 2020	Flood	Oakland	-	Roadway flooding at I-580 W and Coolidge Ave off ramp.
November 2019	Hail	Oakland	-	Public reporting pea-sized hail in Alameda. Reported via twitter.
March 2018	Hail	Oakland	-	Several reports of pea-sized hail in Oakland via social media.
April 2018	Hail	Oakland	-	Small accumulating hail observed in Oakland.
April 2018	Hail	Oakland	-	Small hail observed in east Oakland.
April 2018	Hail	Oakland	-	Media report showing accumulating small hail in Oakland.
February 1999	Hail	Oakland	-	Smal hail fell in and around the Oakland Zoo.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Oakland	-	flooded basement at Whittier Elementary School
December 2002	Flood	Oakland	-	no account filed
December 1996	Flash Flood	Oakland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alameda County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1895 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1915 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Harrison and Fifteenth Sts. Historic District	0.1 miles	1996
Main Post Office and Federal Building	0.1 miles	1980
Oakland YWCA Building	0.2 miles	1984
Downtown Oakland Historic District	0.3 miles	1998
Security Bank and Trust Company Building	0.3 miles	1982
Cameron-Stanford House	0.3 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000470 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alameda County	All 160 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.