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[[Image:GilbertHotel.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Gilbert Hotel]]
The '''Merchants' Hotel''' was a hotel on the southwest corner of [[Palafox Street|Palafox]] and [[Government Street]]s (currently a parking lot). It is noted with illustration on the [[Wellge map]] of [[1885]], at which time [[M. Kryger]] was the proprietor.
A [[1905]] business directory indicates that the hotel was in operation beginning in at least [[1882]]:
:''MERCHANTS HOTEL – Has a capacity of 42 guests. Rooms rent at the rates of $2.50 and $3.00 per day. Mr. [[Jacob Kryger|Jacob KRYGER]] has conducted the house for over 23 years and is assisted by his chief clerk, Mr. [[Clifford J. Bell|C. J. BELL]].''
It was later called the '''Gilbert Hotel'''.