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From: Linda Emerson <>
Subject: [CASANFRA] Re: International House
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:21:55 -0800
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The International House/Hotel was located on the corner of Kearney &
Jackson Streets very close to the present day Transamerica Pyramid on
Montgomery Street. It was built about 1850 and was in close proximity
to the ships that were landing in old San Francisco Bay. (Montgomery
Street was the actual waterline before the era of landfill.) While not
much is known about its early days, other than it was a popular boarding
house in the center of town and very close to the major gambling halls,
its ending was quite a scandal. There had been an 8 year attempt at
bringing the building down but tenants refused to move out. In the
middle of the night in the summer of 1977, low income housing residents
of the hotel were brutally evicted and the building was finally razed.

Linda in Twain Harte

Can anybody identify, locate, date, otherwise describe a hotel or
rooming house known as the "INTERNATIONAL HOUSE" in San Francsico about
1886-1890.

Thank you, jm


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