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The Alexandria Hotel and Annex, also known as Plaza Hotel and Annex, is located at 840-844 Brown St. in Napa, California. Built in 1910, the hotel was a work of architect William H. Corlett. The hotel's design exemplifies the
Mission Revival The Mission Revival style was part of an architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles. Mission Revival drew inspiration from the late 18th and early 19th century ...
and Mediterranean Revival styles, which were both popular in California in the early 20th century. The design features three square towers on the street facing corners, overhanging eaves, and both slanted
bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...
and rounded windows. The hotel's annex is older than the hotel and was redesigned to match the hotel's architecture when the hotel was built. and The hotel was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1982. The listing included two contributing buildings, the hotel and its annex.


2014 Napa Valley earthquake

File:Napa Alexandria crumble after Napa Valley earthquake (14851105590).jpg, Damage from South Napa quake File:2014 South Napa eathquake Alexandria Square building.jpg, Earthquake damaged Alexandria Square building File:Alexandria Square building May 2015.jpg, Renovations underway in May 2015 File:Alexandria Hotel and Annex June 2016.jpg, Renovations completed in June 2016 The building was damaged by the
2014 South Napa earthquake The 2014 South Napa earthquake occurred in the North San Francisco Bay Area on August 24 at . At 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), the event was the largest in the San Francisco Bay Are ...
, and has been renovated.


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Mission Revival architecture in California Hotel buildings completed in 1910 Buildings and structures in Napa County, California National Register of Historic Places in Napa County, California {{NapaCountyCA-struct-stub