253 results for: Washington Hotel
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View of Western Ave., Seattle, circa 1919
This view of Seattle was taken facing north from about where the Public Market Parking Garage is now located. The large building in the center of the frame is the Seattle Seamen's Institute (also Seamen's Bethel, or Seaman's Hotel), opened by the Seamen's Friend Society in 1904 as a home for retired sailors and mariners. On the eastern side of…
ID Number:1983.10.1659.4
Date:Circa 1919
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Two Yakama couples outside a Seattle hotel, January 29, 1921
The Yakama (formerly spelled Yakima) people have lived in the Columbia River basin since time immemorial. Historically, they lived in permanent winter villages built on the valley floor where the climate was most temperate. Starting in spring, they traveled along the rivers and into the hills to gather food. Some gathered roots and berries, and others fished in rivers, especially…
ID Number:1983.10.2082.2
Date:1921
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Four members of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Seattle, April 21, 1920
On November 27, 1911, the "Native Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Prior to 1870" was organized in Seattle by sixty white, non-Indigenous, women from all over the Pacific Northwest to honor their settler heritage. The organization still exists as of 2018, now called Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, and promotes historic preservation and education.In this image four women…
ID Number:1983.10.2102.1
Date:1920
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Camlin Apartments, Seattle, circa 1926
The historic Camlin Hotel opened in 1926 as the Camlin Apartment Hotel, located at 1619 Ninth Avenue in downtown Seattle. Architect Carl Linde designed the building in the Italianate style for developers Edmund Campbell and Adolph Linden, who lost the hotel after their convictions for fraud. The hotel has been operated by many different owners over the years, and as…
ID Number:1983.10.3408.1
Date:Circa 1926
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Exchange Building under construction, Seattle, May 1, 1929
The Exchange Building is one of several Art Deco office buildings in Seattle. It was designed as a home for stock and commodity exchanges. The Exchange Building was the last large downtown building built before the Depression of the 1930s hit the city. It was Seattle business district's tallest building until after World War II ended in 1945. Signs in…
ID Number:1983.10.3691.1
Date:1929
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Republic Building, Seattle, circa 1927
The Republic Building was constructed in downtown Seattle in 1927 on Madison Street near 5th Avenue. Signs in image: Kress. Peoples Bank Bldg. Zukor's Dress Shop. The Fashion Bootery. Zinke's Shoe Re-Newing. Liggett's Drug Store. Winter Garden - 8:15 Double Bill with Chas Chaplin - 25 cents. Stage Attractions. Melrose Hotel.Handwritten on sleeve: Republic Bldg.Photographer's Reference Number: 128363Caption information source:…
ID Number:1983.10.3876
Date:Circa 1927
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Chandelier at Orpheum Theatre, Seattle, circa 1928
The new Orpheum Theatre opened August 25, 1927 and was heralded as one of the finest vaudeville and "photoplay" houses on the West Coast. Designed in Spanish Renaissance style by the famous architect B. Marcus Priteca, the building stood at the corner of 5th and Stewart until 1967, when it was destroyed for construction of the Washington Plaza Hotel. Massive…
ID Number:1983.10.3944.2
Date:Circa 1928
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Light fixture at Orpheum Theatre, Seattle, circa 1928
The new Orpheum Theatre opened August 25, 1927 and was heralded as one of the finest vaudeville and "photoplay" houses on the West Coast. Designed in Spanish Renaissance style by the famous architect B. Marcus Priteca, the building stood at the corner of 5th and Stewart until 1967, when it was destroyed for construction of the Washington Plaza Hotel. Several…
ID Number:1983.10.3944.3
Date:Circa 1928
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New Washington Hotel lobby, Seattle, circa 1928
In 1908 real estate investors John Edward Chilberg (1867-1954) and James Crawford Marmaduke (1871-1945) opened the New Washington Hotel on the northeast corner of Stewart Street and Second Avenue in what is now Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. The 13-story hotel was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival Style and, as the city's premier hotel for several decades, welcomed many prominent guests,…
ID Number:1983.10.3996.4
Date:Circa 1928
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Great Northern Railway Building, Seattle, circa 1929
Shown here is the downtown Seattle office building for the Great Northern Railway on Fourth Avenue at Union Street, which was constructed in 1928 and 1929. The Great Northern Railway ran from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, and was developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad. It was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the United States. Signs…
ID Number:1983.10.4050
Date:Circa 1929