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Image of Railroad car and cottages at the Big Four Inn, circa 1921
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Railroad car and cottages at the Big Four Inn, circa 1921

In the 1920s, Bethel and Wyatt Rucker built the Hartford & Eastern Railway to connect their mining, lumber and real estate interests east of Everett, Washington. The gasoline-powered train started at Hartford, passed through the farmlands near Granite Falls, climbed through the rocky mountainsides along the Stilliguamish River to the Big Four Inn and reached the end of the line…
ID Number:1986.30.1
Date:Circa 1921
Image of Private bath in the Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1940<br />Stamped on back: Hotel Frye, Seattle, Wash.<br />circa 1940
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Private bath in the Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1940
Stamped on back: Hotel Frye, Seattle, Wash.
circa 1940

In 1911 when George Frederick Frye (1833-1912) opened his eleven-story Louisa C. Frye Hotel near Pioneer Square, it was considered Seattle’s finest. The ornate Italian Renaissance design had an interior finish of mahogany and marble. It contained 350 deluxe rooms with exterior window views, 200 with private baths. President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest at the grand opening. Shortly after…
ID Number:1990.45.44
Date:Circa 1940
Image of Guest room with two beds, Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1912
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Guest room with two beds, Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1912

In 1911 when George Frederick Frye (1833-1912) opened his eleven-story Louisa C. Frye Hotel near Pioneer Square, it was considered Seattle’s finest. The ornate Italian Renaissance design had an interior finish of mahogany and marble. It contained 350 deluxe rooms with exterior window views, 200 with private baths. President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest at the grand opening. Shortly after…
ID Number:1990.45.46
Date:Circa 1912
Image of Guest room with one bed, Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1923
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Guest room with one bed, Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1923

In 1911 when George Frederick Frye (1833-1912) opened his eleven-story Louisa C. Frye Hotel near Pioneer Square, it was considered Seattle’s finest. The ornate Italian Renaissance design had an interior finish of mahogany and marble. It contained 350 deluxe rooms with exterior window views, 200 with private baths. President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest at the grand opening. Shortly after…
ID Number:1990.45.49
Date:Circa 1923
Image of Studio portrait of George Frederick Frye, Seattle, circa 1910
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Studio portrait of George Frederick Frye, Seattle, circa 1910

Georg Friedrich Christian Freye was born in Drakenburg, Germany, on January 15, 1833, the son of Otto Friedrich Christian Freye and Sophia Maria Pranga. He immigrated to the US at 16, working for his brother-in-law, Johann F. Rodekohr in Lafayette County, Missouri, until 1852 when he traveled to Oregon. The following year he moved to Seattle. He married Louisa Catherine…
ID Number:1990.45.82
Date:Circa 1910
Image of Second Avenue, Seattle, crica 1925
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Second Avenue, Seattle, crica 1925

The Hotel Savoy at 1212-1216 2nd Avenue dominates this post card looking north on 2nd Avenue. The New Washington Hotel is in the distance at the corner of Stewart Street. Caption on image: Hotel Savoy, Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington
ID Number:1990.88.2
Date:Circa 1925
Image of Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Seattle, circa 1929
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Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Seattle, circa 1929

This image shows the Hotel Benjamin Franklin at 5th Avenue and Virginia Street in downtown Seattle. The hotel was Seattle's second largest when it opened on February 27, 1929, standing 14 stories tall and containing 359 rooms. The rooms were built with diverse floor plans and sizes to attract tourists and long-term residents, including two floors reserved entirely for a…
ID Number:1991.22.2.7
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Hotel Frye menu, circa 1911
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Hotel Frye menu, circa 1911

When the Frye Hotel opened in 1911, it was considered the finest hotel in Seattle. This menu is for the hotel cafe and features three pages of imported and domestic beers and wines, liquors, cordials and fourteen varieties of mineral water. The cover of the menu is printed in two colors with a crest design and a stylized gothic font.
ID Number:1991.80.15a
Date:Circa 1911
Image of Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909

This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.33.6
Date:1909
Image of Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909

This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.33.8
Date:1909
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