National Exchange Hotel

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = National Exchange Hotel

| nrhp_type = cp

| nocat = yes

| partof = Nevada City Downtown Historic District

| partof_refnum = 85002520

| designated_other1 = California

| image = National Hotel Nevada City.jpg

| caption = National Hotel in 2007

| location = 211 Broad St., Nevada City, California

| coordinates = {{coord|39.2622|-121.01790|display=inline,title}}

| built = 1856

| architecture = Victorian, brick

| added = October 25, 1973

| area =

| refnum = 73000416{{NRISref|2009a}}

| designated_other1_number = 899{{cite ohp|899|National Exchange Hotel|2012-10-10}}

| designated_other1_num_position = both

}}

The National Exchange Hotel (also known as the National Hotel) is located in Nevada City in the U.S. state of California. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and a California Historical Landmark, it is one of the oldest continuously operated hotels west of the Rockies.{{cite web|url=http://www.noehill.com/nevada_county_california/cal0899.asp|title=California Landmark 899: National Hotel in Nevada City, California|publisher=Noehill.com|accessdate=16 May 2010}} It opened in August 1856 under the name of "Bicknell Block".

In 1863, there was a fire and the hotel was shut down for a temporary period of time. By 1894, a new balcony had been added to the hotel (pictured).{{cite book|last=Brower|first=Maria E.|title=Nevada City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHuRJOXuev8C&pg=PA55|accessdate=16 May 2010|date=October 2005|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-3062-8|pages=61–62, 67}} At a civic affair in San Francisco a Nevada City businessman, John J. Jackson, claimed that a meeting that took place in 1898 at the National Hotel was the creation of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.{{cite book|last1=Hoover|first1=Mildred Brooke|last2=Kyle|first2=Douglas E.|title=Historic spots in California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYMPR6xAj50C&pg=PA258|accessdate=16 May 2010|date=2002-09-06|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-4482-9|page=258}} In 2012, the hotel was the subject of an episode of Ghost Adventures.

File:National Hotel in 1894.JPG