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Photograph of Hotel St. Matthew
Photograph by Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hotel St. Matthew

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

One of 63 National Register listings published here for San Mateo County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 215-229 Second Ave., San Mateo, 94402
  • When was it listed? January 1998
  • Category. building
  • Census division. San Mateo
  • National Register reference number. 97001663 - 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

1892 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hotel St. Matthew, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Hotel St. Matthew, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Hotel St. Matthew between 1992 and 2020, burning about 157 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined147
Equipment and vehicle use44
Smoking30
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz Unitnot named
7 September 2007Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz Unitnot named
5 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBEL AIRE RD THE_HIGHLAND
4 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use9.5 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitCRYSTAL
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitCRYSTAL

Every fire recorded in San Mateo County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Hotel St. Matthew: 13 producers, 12 past producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Calcium, Salt. 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
Redwood City PlantSaltProducer
Skyline QuarryCalciumProducer
Skyline QuarryCalciumPast Producer
QuarryStoneProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed LocationStoneProducer
Unnamed LocationStonePast Producer
CaseyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
CaseyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
GardnerStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in San Mateo County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Mateo, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 2 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death and 12 injuries. 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
January 1998Heavy RainSan Mateo1 killedheavy rain contributed to auto accident
January 1998Heavy RainSan Mateo12 hurtrain slick roads caused several auto accidents
January 2017HailSan Mateo$10Pea sized hail reported in Highlands Baywood Park.
April 2018FloodSan Mateo-US 101 at 3rd Ave on ramp, severe flooding in 1 lane.
December 1996FloodSan Mateo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Mateo County

Maps showing this location

22 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
Yoshiko Yamanouchi Houseunder 500 feet2023
National Bank of San Mateo0.5 miles1997
US Post Main Office-San Mateo0.6 miles1988
Amelia Vollers House0.9 miles2015
Eugene J. De Sabla Jr. Teahouse and Tea Garden1.0 miles1992
Ernest Coxhead House1.0 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001663 in Record Group 79.
San Mateo CountyAll 63 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.