Horton Grand Hotel, historic building in San Diego, California, U.S

The Horton Grand Hotel combines two 1887 buildings: the Grand Horton, an Italianate Victorian luxury hotel modeled on the Innsbruck Inn in Vienna, and the Brooklyn Kahle Saddlery, which mixed Western and Victorian styles. Rebuilt in 1986 at Fourth Avenue and Island Avenue, the hotel displays tall windows, ornamental brickwork, and classical details.

The Grand Horton was built in 1887 by Comstock & Trotsche in the Italianate Victorian style, its design based on the Innsbruck Inn in Vienna, Austria, during the boom that followed San Diego's first transcontinental railroad link in 1885. The Brooklyn Hotel, later the Kahle Saddlery after a saddle and harness shop opened on its ground floor in 1912, combined Western and Victorian styles. When the city bought both buildings in the 1970s for the Horton Plaza site, they were dismantled brick by brick, each brick numbered and catalogued, and rebuilt as one hotel at Fourth Avenue and Island Avenue in 1986.

The name links the hotel to Alonzo Horton, the developer who laid out downtown San Diego. The two parts carry separate identities: the Grand Horton copied the Innsbruck Inn in Vienna, while the Brooklyn Hotel took the name Kahle Saddlery from a saddle and harness shop that occupied its ground floor from 1912.

The hotel stands at Fourth Avenue and Island Avenue, a few blocks from the Gaslamp Quarter's shops and restaurants and near Horton Plaza. Guests arriving by car reach it from the downtown street grid; the lobby entrance is on Fourth Avenue. Walking is the simplest way to reach nearby museums and the waterfront.

The two hotels were dismantled brick by brick in the 1970s, and each brick was numbered and catalogued before storage. They were then rebuilt as one hotel at Fourth Avenue and Island Avenue in 1986. The Grand Horton's design was based on the Innsbruck Inn in Vienna, Austria.