I-Hotel
| International Hotel | |
|---|---|
.JPG)
The 2nd incarnation of the International Hotel
|
|
 International Hotel
International Hotel
International Hotel
|
|
| Alternative names | I-Hotel |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Contemporary |
| Town or city | San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates | 37°47′46″N 122°24′17″W / 37.7961°N 122.4048°WCoordinates: 37°47′46″N 122°24′17″W / 37.7961°N 122.4048°W |
| Completed | 1854 |
| Relocated | 848 Kearny Street (1873) |
| Renovated | 1907, 2005 |
| NRHP Reference # | 77000333 |
| Added to NRHP | June 15, 1977 |
The International Hotel, often referred to locally as the I-Hotel was a low-income single-room-occupancy residential hotel in San Francisco, California's Manilatown .
It was home to many Asian Americans, specifically a large Filipino American population. Around 1954, the I-Hotel also famously housed in its basement Enrico Banduccci's original "hungry i" nightclub. During the Manhattanization of San Francisco in the late 60s, real estate corporations proposed plans to demolish the hotel, which would necessitate displacing all of the I-Hotel's elderly tenants. In response, housing activists, students, community members, and tenants united to protest and resist eviction. Despite this, all tenants were evicted on August 4, 1977.
The hotel was demolished in 1981, and after the site was purchased by the International Hotel Senior Housing Inc., it was rebuilt and opened in 2005. It now shares spaces with St. Mary's School and Manilatown.
The I-Hotel, originally established as a luxury location for travelers in 1854, relocated to Kearny Street in 1873 and was rebuilt in 1907 after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. During the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of seasonal Asian laborers came to reside at the I-Hotel. The communities and building around the I-Hotel grew into a 10-block Filipino American enclave along Kearny Street known as Manilatown, the Manilatown section of San Francisco. During the 1960s, residents were able to rent a room in the hotel for less than $50 a month.
During the urban renewal and redevelopment movement of the mid-1960s, the International Hotel was targeted for demolition. This "urban renewal" that occurred in response to the end of World War II had destroyed the heart of the Fillmore District, San Francisco, and hundreds of homes and thousands of residents were displaced due to the city's plans to expand the downtown business sector.
...
Wikipedia