Horton Grand Hotel

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Horton Grand Hotel in downtown San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter is a 132-room Victorian landmark at 311 Island Avenue, assembled in 1986 from two 1886-era buildings — the Italianate Grand Horton and the Cowboy Victorian Brooklyn-Kahle Saddlery Hotel — relocated brick by brick from their original F Street sites during the Gaslamp district's restoration. Every room features a working gas-burning fireplace, Victorian period furnishings, and an armoire, anchoring a preservation effort overseen by architect Wayne Donaldson on the same historic block where Osteria Panevino serves its Gaslamp Quarter Italian menu. A New Orleans-style courtyard with fountain connects the two wings, and the lobby still houses Sunshine — an antique papier-mâché horse from the original Kahle Saddlery whose mane was crafted from curried police-horse hair. Salt & Whiskey, the on-site restaurant and whiskey bar, runs live entertainment Thursday through Saturday on the same nightlife strip anchored by the speakeasy-format Prohibition Lounge. The hotel's 14,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor event space handles weddings and banquets for up to 300 guests across the courtyard, ballroom, and historic dining rooms.

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