The U.S. Grant Hotel is a historic hotel in downtown San Diego, California. It operates under a franchise of Marriott International as part of their Luxury Collection brand. One of the oldest hotels in San Diego, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is 11 stories high and has 270 guest rooms in addition to meeting rooms and multiple ballrooms.
History
Fannie Chaffee Grant’s father Jerome B. Chaffee, one of Colorado's first senators, purchased the hotel for his daughter as a gift. Women were not allowed to buy real estate at that time and her husband had no money of his own. Senator Chaffee purchased the Horton House in 1895. Fannie Chaffee Grant decided to tear it down in 1905. Her husband, Ulysses S. Grant Jr. (son of President Ulysses S. Grant), oversaw the building of the Grant Hotel, which opened in 1910 and was named after his father.[2][3] Architect Harrison Albright designed the hotel.[4] San Diego voters helped finance $700,000 for the $1.5 million needed to construct the hotel after Grant lacked the funds to do so.