Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2007.046.0594Scope and Content
Color Photograph
820 First Street Benicia CA
Parcel Number: 89-052-20
The two sections of this brick building were built in 1936-37 on the site of the 1870's Palace Hotel, which burned in the early 1930's. William Dykes, Editor/Publisher 1919-1936, is believed to have designed the building. It has been a newspaper office of The Herald-New Era and the Benicia Herald.
The left side of a one-story multi-colored brick structure. It is flat roofed with one course decorated parapet. This section has a corner entrance with a center painted door opening with transome window. Two identical, centered pointed, fixed windows are definded by header bond trim.Collection
Benicia Architectural Study - 1989
