The Grand Hotel was constructed in 1925, built in the decorative brick commercial style. It has three levels. The street level originally was a dry goods store and bus depot for transcontinental buses. The second floor served as a hotel. The basement level was home to the Gallup Cadillac Company. The symmetrical lower façade of poured concrete has the center hotel entry flanked by storefronts. The brick second floor window is highlighted by vertical and linear brickwork with protruding stringcourses above and below the windows. This building is closely linked to Gallup's early highway era. The hotel went out of business in 1980 and the building was run as Ricca's Mercantile for a short time before closing completely.