Horton Grand Hotel

Infobox_nrhp2 | name =Grand-Horton Hotel
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caption = Horton Grand Hotel, 2008
location= San Diego, California
lat_degrees = 32
lat_minutes = 42
lat_seconds = 50
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 117
long_minutes = 9
long_seconds = 38
long_direction = W
locmapin = California
area =
built =1887
architect= Comstock & Trotsche
architecture= Italianate
added = June 20, 1980
governing_body = Private
refnum=80000842cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Horton Grand Hotel is a restoration of two historic hotels, the Grand Horton and the Brooklyn Kahle Saddlery, in San Diego, California. 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 trans-continental train in 1885. The Horton-Grand was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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. Wyatt Earp lived in the Brooklyn Hotel during most of the seven years he stayed in San Diego.

Both hotels were scheduled for demolition in the 1970s when the City of San Diego purchased them. The hotels were dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt at the present location in 1986.

Guests of the original hotels included President Benjamin Harrison, Jack Dempsy, Joe Louis, Babe Ruth and Wyatt Earp.

The Horton Grand is reputed to be haunted, including the ghost of a man named Roger Whitaker who reportedly occupies Room 309.

References

External links

* [http://www.hortongrand.com/history.php Horton Grand History]