Awards + Publications / McGregor Building
“The applicant has done an outstanding job of conveying the story
of Charles MacGregor and his important contributions to many
East Bay communities”
The McGregor Building
Albany, California
National Register of Historic Places, 2019
Jerri Holan successfully nominated Albany’s MacGregor Building to the National Register of Historic Places. The nomination included archival research at local repositories, historical literature, photographic documentation, and coordinating the nomination with the California Office of Historic Preservation.
The MacGregor Building in Albany, California, is located on a prominent corner of the small town’s main commercial thoroughfare, Solano Avenue. Built-in the mid-1930s by the City’s most prolific master builder and developer, Charles Manning MacGregor, it contained MacGregor’s own office as well as retail and professional offices.
It was the City’s first large commercial structure on Solano Avenue and is its most architecturally significant building. It is also the most important building of MacGregor’s long career. An iconic two-story building with a good degree of integrity, it has textured stucco walls with a Mission tile roof in the Spanish/ Mediterranean Revival Style and features many excellent examples of craftsmanship and period detailing.
