The Exchange Hotel, also called Franklin House, is a historical building in San Diego, California, built-in 1851 by George P. Tebbetts and his partner Philip Hooff.

It is first mentioned in the May 29 1851 issue of the San Diego Herald where the "Exchange Hotel and Billiard Saloon" is advertised to carry "the choicest wines, liquors, segars...

"[1] Soon after, on June 29, 1851, a group of Freemasons met in the hotel to commemorate John the Baptist, their patron saint.

[7] Freemasons continued to hold meetings there and at some point Joseph Mannasse, an early mason in San Diego, subsequently owned Franklin House.

[5] After Franklin House was lost in an April 1872 fire, the site was a vacant lot for some time.