Vendome San Jose Neighborhood 

The Vendome Neighborhood is encompassed by West Taylor Street, Guadalupe Parkway, and North First Street. The architecture in Vendome includes Victorian, Craftsman, Prairie style, Tudor, art moderne, and a wide variety of Spanish styles built throughout the mid-1930s. The historic streets that are considered the heart of Vendome are Ayer Avenue, Losse Court, and Rankin Avenues, located adjacent to the present Japantown/Ayer light rail station on North First Street.

The 95110 and 95112 zip code makes up portions of downtown San Jose and stretches over to San Jose International airport. This location is perfect for peninsula commute. Interstates 101, 280, 880, and the El Camino are adjacent to 95110, making it easily accessible to the rest of the bay area. Different neighborhoods in 95110 include Washington-Guadalupe, Alma, Goodyear-Mastic, Rosemary Gardens, and Guadalupe River Park. Different neighborhoods in 95112 include Japantown, Hensley, Hyde Park, Horace Mann, Sun, East Virginia, and Clinic Most of the homes in the 95110 and 95112 zip code are high rise apartment complexes due to their central location to downtown San Jose. 

Get Your Food Fix at Local Restaurants

Local favorites Vito’s Trattoria, La Victoria Taqueria, Smoking Pig BBQ Company, Gombai, Minato, Okayama, Kazoo Boat, and Sushi Maru.

Get Fresh and Natural Japanese Groceries

Pick up handmade artisan tofu from the San Jose Tofu Company and Japanese groceries (many organic) at Nijiya Market. On Sundays (8:30 am to noon), check out the Japantown Farmer's Market (enter on Jackson St. between 6th and 7th Streets). A few vendors specialize in Asian produce. 

Have a Coffee at the famous Roy's Station

Stop by ​Roy's Station Coffee and Tea, a family-owned coffee shop built-in community elder Roy Murotsune's pre-WWII Mobil gas station. The vintage modern coffee shop features roasted Verve Coffee and teas from Satori and Teance. 

Have a Drink at Local Dive Bars 

Locals and downtown college students flock to 7 Bamboo, one of the Bay Area's best karaoke bars, and Jack's Bar to watch sports.

To find out more about 95110 and 95112 real estate and San Jose homes for sale reach out to Property Nerds Eric & Janelle Boyenga of the Boyenga Team for a no-obligation consultation.

 

 

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The Boyenga Team is the #1 leading real estate team in San Jose for Compass. With offices in Downtown San Jose, Almaden, Willow Glen, Rosegarden, Cambrian, West San Jose and representing the Silicon Valley suburbs of Milpitas, Santa Clara, Campbell, Los Gatos, and surrounding areas of San Jose. The Boyenga Team’s agents are ready to serve you where you live, work, and play. Whether buying or selling you can count on the Boyenga Team’s Local Expertise and Global Reach to deliver results.

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Vendome San Jose History

For over forty years from 1889-1930 Hotel Vendome located on First Street a few blocks north of downtown was a centerpiece of San Jose tourism, recreation, and social life. The Hotel Vendome Company, incorporated in 1887, immediately engaged the local architectural firm of Jacob Lenzen & Son to design a grand resort hotel in the style of the new Arcadia Hotel in Santa Monica. Jacob Lenzen continued as the general contractor, completing construction by early 1889 at a total cost of $150,000. Much of Lowe’s earlier landscaping from the Belden estate formed the basis for the hotel’s grounds.  When it opened on February 7, 1889, the Hotel Vendome had 150 rooms with en suite bathrooms, steam heat, Otis elevators, a ballroom, a barbershop, banquet rooms, and kitchens. Transient rates were $2.50 to $4.00 per day, with special rates for families and permanent boarders.  The hotel is surrounded by a magnificent park of considerable extent. It consists of pines, elms, live oaks, redwoods, peppers and various other kinds of trees with palms and tropical plants and a wealth of shrubbery, combined with scores of handsome lawns. Walks wind through the park, a maze of delights. All about the grounds, and carrying out the park idea, are tree-lined street and fine residences with well-kept grounds. Bowling alleys and tennis courts furnish amusement to the guests. The hotel’s greenhouses and sprouting beds had a capacity of 30,000 plants to set out around the hotel grounds.  The Vendome Stables on the hotel grounds along San Pedro Street housed 40-60 horses of the Mount Hamilton Stage Company, operated by Fred Ross.
Fires! During its forty years of existence, the Hotel Vendome had several fires. The first, on September 7, 1889, caused only minor damage. The worst fire was on the night of September 26, 1898. Around 10:30 pm, a waiter saw sparks falling from the wing of the hotel containing the main dining room. All guests gathered their belongings and left uninjured, most being taken to the St. James Hotel. The entire fire department responded, battling the blaze through the night and into the next morning. Ten firefighters were on the third floor when a portion of the building collapsed. Three fell into the wreckage. James Nagle and Dick Williamson were injured, but Miles McDermott died — the first San José firefighter to die in the line of duty. The demise of the Hotel Vendome. Faced with competition from several modern downtown hotels and a newly relocated depot, the aging Hotel Vendome was sold to a syndicate, headed by local realtor J. Bradley Clayton, on March 26, 1930. The Hotel Vendome doors were closed on April 25, 1930, and the buildings were promptly demolished. The grounds were subdivided for a residential development known as the Vendome Grounds. The site is now the present Ayer Avenue, Losse Court, and Rankin Avenues, located adjacent to the present Japantown/Ayer light rail station on North First Street. 
 

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