453 results for: Hotel Seattle
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Oxford Hotel, Seattle, circa 1928
The Hotel Oxford is located on the east side of First Avenue between Stewart and Virginia Streets. Signs in image: Terminal Sales Bldg. Hotel Oxford. Parking 25 cents per Day - Weekly and Monthly Rates.Handwritten on sleeve: W.D. Perkins Co. - Oxford Hotel.Webster & Stevens number: 129590
ID Number:1983.10.3487.1
Date:Circa 1928
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Frye Hotel, circa 1926
Seattle's economy boomed in the years following 1900. In 1911, local businessman George Frye completed the Frye Hotel to cater to businessmen and other visitors who sometimes stayed for extended periods of time. The building is located on Yesler Way at Third Avenue South in the heart of the downtown area. It was converted to low-income housing in the early…
ID Number:1983.10.3538.2
Date:Circa 1926
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The New Orpheum Theatre, 1928
Seattle's New Orpheum Theatre opened in 1927. It was one of the largest and most elegant members of the Orpheum Circuit, a nationwide chain of "photo play" and vaudeville theaters. The August 1927 program included music on the Wurlitzer organ, a feature movie (Rod LaRocque in "The Fighting Eagle"), a newsreel, and a song and dance revue ("Ned Wayburn's Buds…
ID Number:1983.10.3603.1
Date:1928
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Olympic Hotel addition under construction, Seattle, March 30, 1929
Seattle's Olympic Hotel is still a downtown landmark. It was built from steel, brick, concrete, and terra cotta. Like many taller city buildings, the decoration on the lower floors is much more detailed than that on the upper floors. The elegance of the lower floors was meant to attract people at street level. Handwritten on sleeve: John L. Wick -…
ID Number:1983.10.3661
Date:1929
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Regraded land and new streets in the Denny Hill area, circa 1930
By the late 1920s, Seattle's downtown businesses pressured the city to remove the remaining part of Denny Hill so that the city could expand to the north. Nearly seven million cubic yards of earth were moved from public and private property during the regrading project. This photo is half of a panoramic view to the north from the downtown area,…
ID Number:1983.10.3685.3
Date:Circa 1930
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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