International Hotel, Former hotel site in Virginia City, Nevada, United States

The International Hotel was a six-story brick building on Union Street in Virginia City, Nevada, between B and C streets, modeled after San Francisco's Palace Hotel. It stood 109 feet high with 160 rooms and the state's first hydraulic elevator. Its site is now a parking lot.

The first International Hotel opened on Union Street on March 24, 1860, a one-story wooden building with 12 rooms, a dining room and a bar. A three-story brick addition followed in 1862, and the wooden section was dismantled in 1863 and shipped to Austin, Nevada. The hotel burned in the Great Fire of 1875; a six-story replacement, modeled on San Francisco's Palace Hotel, opened on March 31, 1877, and was destroyed by fire on December 12, 1914.

The hotel's name came from its role as a stop for travelers arriving in Virginia City during the Comstock mining boom. Its bar and rooms were placed in the basement of the original 1860 wooden building, and the rebuilt 1877 hotel drew presidents Grant, Hayes and Harrison as guests.

The hotel stood on Union Street between B and C Streets in Virginia City, its entrance facing B Street. The site is now a parking lot, so there is no building to enter; the location is marked only by its position in the town grid. Visitors reach it on foot from the surrounding streets.

The 1877 hotel had Nevada's first hydraulic elevator, and its opening night on March 31, 1877 drew U.S. Senator William Sharon and Comstock magnate John William Mackay. The six-story building stood 109 feet tall and cost $600,000 to build.