International Hotel

FIRST COMMERCIAL BUILDING

CONSTRUCTED IN AUSTIN

1863

This structure was built of lumber from the first International Hotel, constructed in Virginia City.

David E. Buel constructed the hotel after being refused a free lot in Clifton at the mouth of the canyon below.  Buel, Frederick Baker, W.C. Harrington, and John Veatch located and recorded the original townsite of Austin.

STATE HISTORIC MARKER No. 208

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE

BERT ACREE