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International Hotel (Virginia City)
Hotel in Nevada, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The International Hotel was a hotel located in Virginia City, Nevada. The hotel initially opened as a wooden one-story building in 1860. Two years later, a three-story brick addition was added to the hotel. The wooden portion was dismantled in 1863, and was used to construct a new International Hotel in Austin, Nevada, where it remained operational as of 2014. A four-story brick addition took the place of the wooden building.
International Hotel | |
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![]() International Hotel in 1890 | |
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General information | |
Status | Destroyed |
Type | Hotel |
Town or city | Virginia City, Nevada |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 39.310985°N 119.649803°W / 39.310985; -119.649803 |
Construction started | May 1876 |
Opened | March 31, 1877 |
Destroyed | December 12, 1914 |
Cost | $600,000 |
Height | 109 feet (33 m) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 6 |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 160 |
The International Hotel burned down in the "Great Fire of 1875". A new International Hotel began construction the following year, and opened with 160 rooms on March 31, 1877. At six stories, the hotel was the tallest building in Nevada until a fire destroyed it in December 1914. The site of the former hotel became a parking lot.