page_title: International Hotel (Virginia City)
section_title: Original buildings
hierarchical_section_title: International Hotel (Virginia City) / History / Original buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: International Hotel, C Street, Virginia City Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print&#160;: half stereograph, albumen.
context_page_description: 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.
  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.
context_section_description: The original International Hotel was constructed during the winter of 1859, and opened in Virginia City, Nevada on March 24, 1860. The hotel, owned by Andrew Paul and Dan Connell, earned $700 in revenue on its first day. The hotel was located on Union Street, between B Street and C Street. The building faced B Street, and was made of rough-hewn timbers that had been cut from the nearby Six Mile Canyon. The single-story hotel consisted of 12 rooms, a dining room, and a bar. The bar and hotel rooms were located in the basement.
  By 1862, it was determined that Virginia City would become a permanent city because of the Comstock mines. That year, construction began on a new three-story brick hotel addition, located on C Street and connected to the original wooden building. The entrance of the new building, 40 feet (12 m) long, was leased to two merchants.
  In 1863, a year after the new building was complete, the original wooden portion of the hotel was dismantled and the wood was shipped to Austin, Nevada. The wood was used to construct a new International Hotel in Austin, which remains operational as of 2014.
  In place of the original wooden building, a new four-story brick addition was built, becoming the hotel's main entrance. Upgrades were consistently made to the International, including the addition of gas lighting. On October 26, 1875, the hotel was destroyed by a large fire known as the "Great Fire of 1875", which also destroyed a large part of the town.
caption: The 1862 building, with the four-story addition behind it (1866)
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