International Hotel is a hotel in Chinatown, the United States.[1] Wikidata describes it as “hotel in San Francisco”. It opened in 1907. It stands about 0.2 km from the centre of Chinatown.[3]
Overview
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.
From “International Hotel (San Francisco)” on English Wikipedia, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.[2]
History and building
The hotel opened in 1907. Its architecture is described as Neoclassical architecture. It is listed as a National Register of Historic Places listed place. [1]
Location
Measured in a straight line, the hotel is 0.2 km from the centre of Chinatown. The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (OAK), about 18 km from the centre of Chinatown.[4]
It is one of 67 hotels in and around Chinatown recorded in Wikidata, 30 of which have an article in Innpedia.[5] Of the 19 with a recorded opening date, the earliest is Lick House, opened in 1863. See Hotels in Chinatown.
Other hotels within 1.5 km:
- Hilton San Francisco Financial District — 0.1 km, opened 1971
- Club Quarters Hotel in San Francisco — 0.4 km
- Le Meridien San Francisco — 0.4 km
- Omni San Francisco Hotel — 0.4 km
- The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco — 0.5 km
- Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero — 0.5 km
- Orchard Garden Hotel — 0.6 km
- Hotel des Arts — 0.6 km, opened 2005
- Hotel Triton — 0.6 km
- Fairmont San Francisco — 0.7 km, opened 1907
See also
- Hotels in Chinatown
- Hotels in the United States
- Hotels in the Neoclassical style
- List of heritage-listed hotels in the United States
- List of hotels opened in the 1900s
References
- ^ International Hotel (Q6050970). Wikidata. CC0.
- ^ International Hotel. Wikipedia. Text excerpted under CC BY-SA 4.0; revision of 2026-09-05.
- ^ Chinatown (Q1073644). Wikidata. CC0.
- ^ Airports. OurAirports. Public domain.
- ^ Hotels in Chinatown. Wikidata. CC0.
Facts as stated in Wikidata, read in October 2026.