San Diego · Gaslamp Quarter
Horton Grand Hotel
Two 1880s hotels, the Grand Horton and the Brooklyn, taken apart piece by piece and rebuilt side by side a few blocks away in 1986.
- Built
- 1886–87Two hotels joined: the Grand Horton (opened 1886, architects Comstock & Trotsche) and the Brooklyn Hotel/Kahle Saddlery (opened 1887). Both were dismantled in the early 1980s, moved a few blocks and reassembled side by side with a new atrium; the combined hotel reopened in 1986.
- Style
- Italianate Victorian
- Architect
- Comstock & Trotsche (1886 Grand Horton); 1986 reassembly with architect Wayne Donaldson
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Area
- Gaslamp Quarter
- Credentials
- Local landmark
The story
German immigrant Peter Mayerhofer built the Grand Horton in 1886, modeled on the Innsbruck Hotel in Austria, and Wyatt Earp is said by the hotel to have lived there for seven years. Both it and the 1887 Brooklyn Hotel were slated for demolition for the Horton Plaza mall, until developer Dan Pearson had them taken apart piece by piece (more than 40 tons of materials and 82,000 bricks) and rebuilt side by side. The $12 million project reopened in 1986, the hundredth anniversary of the Grand Horton. The hotel calls the result a re-creation rather than a strict restoration.
Good to know
- Parking: on-site paid
- Elevator
- Pets welcome
- Address: 311 Island Ave, San Diego, CA 92101
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.