Horton Grand Hotel
Grand-Horton Hotel | |
San Diego, California | |
Coordinates | 32°42′37″N 117°09′42″W / 32.71036°N 117.16153°W |
---|---|
Built | 1887 |
Architect | Comstock & Trotsche |
Architectural style | Italianate Victorian |
NRHP reference No. | 80000842 [1] |
Added to NRHP | June 20, 1980 |
Horton Grand Hotel is a restoration of two historic hotels, the Grand Horton and the Brooklyn Kahle Saddlery, in
San Diego, California. The Horton-Grand was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1980.
History
Built in 1887 by Comstock & Trotsche, the Grand Horton was a luxury hotel with a design based on the Innsbruck Inn in
Vienna, Austria. The Grand Horton was part of a building boom following the opening of the city's first transcontinental railroad connection in 1885. It is in the Italianate Victorian architecture
style.
The Brooklyn-Kahle Saddlery Hotel was a less formal hotel that combined Western/Cowboy and Victorian styles. Built around the same time as the Grand Horton, it was originally known as the Brooklyn Hotel, but was later renamed the Kahle Saddlery due to the presence of a prominent saddle and harness shop on the building's first floor starting in 1912.
Dismantled
Both hotels were scheduled for demolition in the 1970s when the City of San Diego purchased them to build the
Horton Plaza shopping center on the site. The hotels were dismantled brick by brick, with each brick numbered, catalogued, and stored. In 1986 the hotels were rebuilt into an entirely new hotel at the present location at Fourth Street and Island Avenue.[2]
See also
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Horton Grand Hotel, San Diego.