The first Brentwood Hotel was built on this site in 1884 as an ornate two-story wooden structure in the Victorian style, with wood sidewalks, columns, and a second-floor balcony. It was destroyed by a fire set by a dismissed employee on November 29, 1903. A second Brentwood Hotel was built in 1913 as a beautiful example of Spanish and Moorish design, featuring earth-tone plaster walls and arches, columns, a pitched roof, paseos, corbels, and kickers. The two-story hotel was demolished in July 1967. A later Chevron station on the site resulted from a collaborative effort by City Community Development staff, the Planning Commission, and Chevron to reflect the image of the second Brentwood Hotel through the use of many of that earlier structure's design elements.