Title:

Commercial Hotel, Anaheim [graphic]

Digital Anaheim

Description:

The Commercial Hotel, located at 182 West Center Street (now Lincoln Avenue) at the corner of Lemon Street; previously known as the Anaheim Hotel, which was built by Anaheim's second mayor, Henry Kroeger, and later sold to the hotel's proprietor, Max Nebelung; by 1890 the hotel's name was changed from the Anaheim Hotel to the Commercial Hotel and in 1905 was sold to John Ziegler; located on the site later occupied by the Hotel Valencia, built by Ziegler, which opened in 1916 and burned down May 4, 1977; image shows full view of hotel with one man standing at lower left corner in front of the hotel, and another man near a horse-drawn vehicle at far right; sign above ground floor doorway on left side of hotel reads "NEW COMMERCIAL HOTEL" ; two rectangular signs on pillars along right side of hotel read "Union ... [.illeg.] / Anaheim Beer / Anaheim, Calif." and two round signs read "PRIME BEER".

Date:

bef. 1915 (issued)

Contributing Institution:

Anaheim Public Library