Eastern Star Hall, Masonic meeting hall in Sacramento, California.
Eastern Star Hall is a 1928 Romanesque Revival building on K Street, across from Sutter's Fort, designed by Coffman, Salsbury & Stafford for the Order of the Eastern Star, a Masonic women's organization. In 2023 it was converted into a Hyatt hotel, with an 8-story steel-framed structure added to the rear of the historic building.
Eastern Star Hall was built in 1928 as a meeting hall for the Order of the Eastern Star, a Masonic women's organization, designed by the firm Coffman, Salsbury & Stafford in the Romanesque Revival style. A fire in December 1936 temporarily closed the hall, but it was quickly repaired and reopened. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. In 2023 it was converted into a Hyatt hotel, with an 8-story steel-framed structure added to the rear.
The hall was built for the Order of the Eastern Star, a Masonic women's organization, and its 1920s architect's drawing shows five women in front of the building, one at the wheel of an automobile. That sketch records the changing role of women in the 1920s. Local schools long used the grand ballroom for dances and social functions.
The building faces K Street directly opposite the reconstructed Sutter's Fort. Since 2023 it has operated as a Hyatt hotel, with an 8-story steel-framed addition at the rear, so the historic Romanesque Revival facade is best viewed from the street and the lobby is reached as a hotel guest or visitor.
This is one of only four buildings constructed specifically for the Order of the Eastern Star. It remains the sole one among those four still in active use today.
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