The Dacres Hotel is a historic hotel in Walla Walla, Washington, United States. Rebuilt from the ruins of Walla Walla's first brick hotel, the 1873 Stine House, the Italianate building was re-opened in 1899 by James E. Dacres. The building is a rare and exceptional local example of the pre-fabricated cast iron facades manufactured by the Mesker Brothers. Bennes, Hendricks & Tobey remodeled the building in 1907. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1974. Ceasing operations as a hotel in 1959, the building currently houses a live music and events venue known as 'The Dacres' on the ground floor while the upper floors remain unused. History Stine House Frederick Stine was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania on November 24, 1825, one of 14 children. In the 1830s the family moved to a farm in Ohio where Frederick picked up the blacksmith trade from his father. In May 1852 Frederick, his brothers and twenty-three other men set off from St. Joseph, Missouri bound for Sacramento, California, reaching their destination in a mere two months and one day. After spending time in Marysville and Yreka plying his trade, Frederick departed for eastern Washington on a trip that would prove much more difficult than his first. Stine arrived in Walla Walla in May 1862 from California with only the clothes on his back and 75 cents to his name. He scraped together enough loaned money to purchase a corner lot on Fourth and Main streets and build a shanty to house his blacksmith shop. With the small frontier town swarming with miners and emigrants with their wagons, his shop proved very lucrative and with additional business from the cavalry stationed at Fort Walla Walla he was able to pay his creditors back within a few months. In 1863 he helped form the first fire department in town and in 1865 was elected to city council, to which he was re-elected several times. By 1872 Stine had amassed a small fortune. He moved his small shop off his lot and began constructing a 3-story brick building. First conceived as an office building, the plans soon changed into a hotel. The hotel was built of bricks fired in Weston, Oregon, lime mortar shipped from San Francisco and most expensively, the windows were made in France and shipped around Cape Horn. Opened in August 1873, the Stine House was the