International Hotel (San Francisco)
| International Hotel | |
|---|---|
The fourth incarnation of the International Hotel | |
International Hotel Location within San Francisco International Hotel International Hotel (California) International Hotel International Hotel (the United States) | |
| Alternative names | I-Hotel |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Contemporary |
| Location | San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates | 37°47′46″N 122°24′17″W / 37.7961°N 122.4048°W |
| Completed | 1954 |
| Relocated | 848 Kearny Street (1873) |
| Renovated | 1907, 2005 |
International Hotel | |
| NRHP reference No. | 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 Banducci's original "hungry i" nightclub. During 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. All the tenants were evicted on August 4, 1977 and the hotel was demolished in 1981. 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 Center.