Horton Grand Hotel
The Grand Horton was a luxury hotel built in 1887 by Comstock & Trotsche with a design based on the Innsbruck Inn in Vienna, Austria, in the Italianate Victorian architecture style. The Grand Horton was part of a building boom following the opening of the city’s first transcontinental railroad connection in 1885. The hotel was scheduled for demolition in the 1970s when the City of San Diego purchased the property to build the Horton Plaza shopping center on the site. The hotel was dismantled brick by brick, with each brick numbered, catalogued, and stored. In 1986 the hotel was rebuilt into an entirely new hotel, the Horton Grand Hotel, at the present location at Fourth Street and Island Avenue. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
San Diego, San Diego County
Images by John Bare