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The Hotel President’s legacy dates back to 1929. Stanford’s Herbert Hoover was president and the brand new hotel put up on University Avenue reflected the city’s pride in their local hero. The Hotel President, designed by another local, architect Birge Clark, was six stories tall and contained 125 rooms. Built in that decade’s trendy Spanish Colonial Revival style, the Hotel President boasted a lush roof garden, a beautiful beamed ceiling lobby and a grand spiral staircase that climbed all the way to the top floor. A brochure from the era, advertising the hotel’s “gracious living,” pointed to its “large, comfortably furnished guestrooms,” each of which had “outside exposure and a private bath.” The hotel even featured in-room radio service, allowing guests to choose between channels as they showered, shaved, or relaxed in their suite. Due to declining tourism in the 50's and 60's and motels on El Camino, the hotel industry in Palo Alto, namely The President Hotel and The Cardinal, sufferred commercially and became apartments some time after that.

In 1996 the building was acquired and substantial renovations and restoration work began, modifying, yet retaining the iconic charm that is today The President Hotel Apartments, the only accommodation on University Avenue, in downtown Palo Alto

Business

This is the heart of Silicon Valley. Whether its Stanford, Financing, Facebook or the next big thing, this is where its at.

The Stanford University

Just a few blocks up, Stanford has one of the best campuses in the world, with plenty to see and do.

Down Town Nightlife

University Avenue is the place to be as families, couples, startup founders and billionaires enjoy Friday nights, the year round

Some Locals

famous CEO's are seen going about their lives around our neighborhood.

Films

The Stanford Theatre is a classical independent movie theater in Palo Alto, California. It was designed and built in the 1920s as a movie palace styled in neoclassical Persian and Moorish architecture.