Stanyan Park Hotel

We are located next to Golden Gate Park with its world class museums, the Japanese Tea Garden, gardens, tennis courts, lawn bowling, picnic areas, jogging trails, and riding trails. The Park is closed to motor vehicles on Sunday which makes it a perfect day to rent a bike and explore.
The hotel is very conveniently located within San Francisco. We are close to the University of San Francisco and the University of California Medical Centre. We are on major bus and trolley lines which makes exploring this beautiful City that much easier. Our staff is knowledgeable about the City and is eager to share this information with you to make your stay that much more rewarding.

The Stanyan Park Hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is an elegant, thoroughly restored Victorian Hotel, that will take you back to a bygone era of style, grace, and comfort. Our thirty-six romantic rooms and suites come in a lovely variety of period decor that will please the eye and provide you with your own quiet little get-away world. All of our rooms are equipped with a color television with cable, direct dial telephone, and a full, modern bath. Our suites all have a full kitchen, dining room, and living room.

In our hotel, we have Standard rooms with a Double bed. The rate for our Standard rooms is $110.00 plus tax (14%) per night. We have Superior rooms with a Queen bed or with 2 twin beds. The rate for our Superior rooms is $125.00 plus tax (14%) per night. We have our Deluxe rooms with a Queen bed or with 2 twin beds. The rate for our Deluxe rooms is $145.00 plus tax (14%) per night. The differences between the Deluxe and the Superior rooms are that the Deluxe rooms are larger (we can put a rollaway only in the Deluxe rooms), have more light (Bay windows), and look out to Golden Gate Park. We have our spacious and romantic Cupola Queen bedded rooms, which are perfect for a honeymoon. The rate for our Cupola Queen rooms is $160.00 plus tax (14%) per night. Our 1 Bedroom Suite is really a 1 bedroom apartment with a queen bedroom, a living room with a fold-out sofa bed, a dining room, a kitchen, and one bathroom. The rate for our 1 Bedroom Suite is $229.00 plus tax (14%) per night. Our 1.5 Bedroom Suite is really a 1.5 bedroom apartment with a queen bedroom, a bedroom with 1 twin bed, a living room with a fold-out sofa bed, a dining room, a kitchen, and one bathroom. The rate for our 1.5 Bedroom Suite is $249.00 plus tax (14%) per night. Our 2 Bedroom Suites are really a 2 bedroom apartment with a queen bedroom, a bedroom with 2 twin beds, a living room with a fold-out sofa bed, a dining room, a kitchen, and one bathroom. The rate for our 2 Bedroom Suite is $279.00 plus tax (14%) per night. All of our rooms have a color TV with cable, telephone with a data port, and a full bathroom. We are a non-smoking hotel. Rates are subject to change.

Although the Stanyan Park Hotel has entirely modern amenities, we offer you touches of past elegance. Please enjoy our complimentary continental breakfast with croissants, bagels with cream cheese, muffins, fresh juices, fruit, and freshly brewed coffee served every morning. Every evening we offer you a tea service with a variety of teas, coffee, biscottis, and cookies.

Our facilities offer the perfect setting for any visitor, couple, family or group. Some of our rooms over look beautiful Golden Gate Park. We do serve a complimentary, expanded continental breakfast and an evening tea service at no charge to our overnight guests; 24-hour front desk; handicapped accessible rooms/facilities; safe-deposit boxes; remote control color televisions with cable; Overnight Parking: $12.00.

History of the Stanyan Park Hotel

The Stanyan Park Hotel is significant as the oldest extant hotel on the border of Golden Gate Park. It was built in 1904 - 1905 for Henry P. Heagerty (1849 - 1918), who knew the area's commercial requirements from having run a saloon and small boarding house on the site since 1883. Opening one of a dozen hotels serving the Park (seven on Stanyan Street alone), Heagerty responded to the competition, in order to attract quality, high-paying customers, by having an elegant and fashionable structure created for his new hotel. He hired a highly respected architectural firm, Martens & Coffey, who gave him the best and costliest ($28,000) of their many buildings in the neighborhood.
Martens & Coffey, active together between 1881 and 1907, generally designed in a style of transition between Queen Anne and Beaux Arts classicism. With asymmetrical planning of the former and restraint in materials of the latter; their ornamentation was classical in vocabulary, but not in placement. Their San Francisco work included a number of residences near Alamo Square, the most elegant of which was 926 Grove; five flats buildings near 750 Stanyan; St. John's Lutheran Church on 22nd near Capp; the Chinese and San Mateo County buildings for the 1894 Midwinter Fair; and with Julius Kraft the first University of California medical buildings. German born Ferdinand H. Martens (1860 - 1914) had been a drafter under Thomas J. Welsh and California native Alfred I. Coffey (1867 - 1932) and had worked under C. I. Havens and P. R. Schmidt. Among their works, the Stanyan Park Hotel stands out for its restrained elegance, its orientation to the Park and the street corner, and for the unity it imposes on the different functions of the hotel, flats, saloons, and other storefronts. This unity can be restored.
The hotels, apartment-hotels, and lodging houses in competition with the Stanyan Park Hotel at its birth have all been demolished except for two "apartment-hotels" that reverted years ago to ordinary apartments. The "Frederick" at the southwest corner of Stanyan and Frederick Streets recalls its more commercial past only with a grocery store at ground level. The building itself is taller but much less elegant than the Stanyan Park Hotel. The more elegant and much larger "Bon-Air Apartments" at the Stanyan - Oak main entrance to Golden Gate Park retains no commercial aspects at all. In contrast, the Stanyan Park Hotel has continued in Directory listings of hotels, though under a variety of names: Park View Hotel, according to the 1905 Sanborn insurance map; Hotel Golden Gate, 1907 - 1919; Hotel Roamer, 1925 - 1930; Stadium Hotel, 1930 - 1975 (referring to Kezar Stadium across the street in Golden Gate Park); and for a brief interval in 1960 - 1961 as the Fremont House. The new owners are calling it the Stanyan Park Hotel.
Golden Gate Park development began in 1871 and came into legal existence in 1870. Even without any nearby roads or public transportation facilities, users started coming as early as 1875. Popular use increased immensely, when street railways reached the Park boundary in 1880. First Park Superintendent William Hammond Hall's policy of forbidding commercial uses inside the Park caused a cluster of saloons to grow up on Stanyan Street. The first hotel there, The Terminal, opened shortly after the Southern Pacific affiliated Park & Ocean Railroad inaugurated its steam train service from a terminal inside the Park's southern and western sides in 1883 and became the first public service to the beach.
About the same time, Harry P. Heagerty set up his liquor establishment at the southwest corner of Stanyan and Waller. The rest of this square block soon contained the Haight Street Grounds, where the California League played baseball from 1887 through 1893, with as many as 7,000 fans at a time. The 1892 Sanborn map shows Heagerty's saloon as a two story building nestled in the corner left by the ball park's curve and right next to the ticket office. In 1897 the new Pacific Coast League opened in a new ball park at Eighth and Harrison, and the Stanyan - Waller block was released for development.
Harry P. Heagerty had owned the corner lot at least by 1894, and presumably the demise of the Haight Street Grounds led him to seek a new trade. Bicycles were already popular in Golden Gate Park, and the hotels must have been thriving, so Heagerty commissioned a new hotel. The building seems to have been designed all at once, but constructed sequentially. Probably first came the rear section on Waller, which would not disturb Heagerty's saloon trade during the construction, and which appears on the 1905 Sanborn map as a virtually independent structure with independent flats. Then came the corner portion, up to the southernmost pair of bays on Stanyan, where the building ended 1905. The last portion was the section running back from these last two bays, where the restaurant occupies the storefront in a historic photograph.
Over the years the Hotel has undergone many ownership changes. It has attracted customers because of its proximity to Golden Gate Park, Kezar Stadium (which opened in 1925) and the University of California Medical Centre. It has survived as a hotel through the "flower children" years of this neighborhood called the Haight - Ashbury. Entirely remodeled in 1982, it stands to benefit from the popularity of small hotels in attractive, antique buildings, away from the downtown area.