Preserving San Jose's Heritage
A 1911 hotel's journey from abandonment to rehabilitation shows how imagination, vision, and firm leadership can make it happen.
"The rehabilitation is, properly, not a pure restoration to the original 1911 design. But the Montgomery is a solid piece of design whose proportions, siting, and craftsmen's touches grace the city. With a bold mayor willing to take a chance and a savvy and imaginative developer who saw a valuable asset where everyone else saw an abandoned building, a beautiful and significant piece of San Jose has been saved for the future. We would be poorer if we had lost it."
Thanks to Sharon Tucker
Published on Sunday, August 22, 2004 in
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