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Hotel Sorrento Christmas Dinner menu, 1923
The Hotel Sorrento, one of the city's first "boutique" hotels, opened in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood in 1909. Among the hotel's first customers were some of the millions of visitors to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a world's fair highlighting the development of the Pacific Northwest. The Hotel Sorrento continues in business at its original location on the corner of Madison…
ID Number:2016.36.8
Date:1923
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Hotel Roosevelt brochure, 1929
Downtown Seattle's Roosevelt Hotel, located at Seventh Avenue and Pine Street, opened in 1929, and at 22 stories was the tallest hotel in the city at the time. Designed in the modernistic Art Deco mode by prominent local architect John Graham, Sr. (1873-1955), and constructed by A.W. Quist & Company, the building was owned by Western Hotels, Inc. The new…
ID Number:2018.3.3.2
Date:1929
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New England hotel souvenir, circa 1905
Seattle’s New England Hotel was located south of Mill Street (now Yesler Way), on the corner of First Avenue South and Main Street. In the city’s early days, this placed it in the red-light district. The hotel was popular with people heading to the gold rush, and it was a hangout for politicians and campaigners. Its manager, James Weir, also…
ID Number:2018.3.3.4
Date:Circa 1905
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Rainier Hotel Company stock certificate, 1889
This stock certificate for the Rainier Hotel Company was issued on November 10, 1889, to Bailey Gatzert for 10 shares, valued at $500. The company owned the Rainier Hotel on Seattle's First Hill, located on Fifth Avenue between Marion Street and Columbia Street. The hotel was rushed to completion in 1889 following the Great Seattle Fire, which had destroyed much…
ID Number:2018.3.3.22
Date:1889
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American House business card, circa 1877
John Harte McGraw (1850-1910) moved to Seattle from Maine in 1876 and got a job as a clerk in the Occidental Hotel. According to his obituary, he became an owner of American House boarding house in 1877, though the hotel was destroyed in a fire in 1878. That year he joined Seattle's tiny police force and began a successful career…
ID Number:2018.3.3.57
Date:Circa 1877
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Hotel Benjamin Franklin brochure, circa 1940
The Hotel Benjamin Franklin was Seattle's second largest hotel when it opened on February 27, 1929, at 5th Avenue and Virginia Street. The building was 14 stories tall and contained 359 rooms built with diverse floor plans and sizes to attract tourists and long-term residents, including two floors reserved entirely for a new kind of guest, single women. The hotel…
ID Number:2018.3.3.68
Date:Circa 1940
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Edmund Meany Hotel brochure, circa 1940
Designed by Seattle-based architect Robert C. Reamer (1873-1938), the proximity of the Edmond Meany Hotel to the University of Washington ensured it became a center of University District activities from the time it opened in November 1931. Named in honor of early Seattle resident and distinguished UW history professor, Edmond Stephen Meany (1862-1935), the hotel is a notable example of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.69
Date:Circa 1940
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Olympic Hotel brochure, circa 1928
In 1924 Seattle's landmark Olympic Hotel (now Fairmont Olympic Hotel) opened downtown on the original site of the University of Washington. Designed by architect George B. Post & Son in the Italian Renaissance style popular at the time, the total cost for construction was $5,500,000, with $800,000 going to furnishings alone.The brochure pictured here advertises the hotel's elegant features, including…
ID Number:2018.3.3.70
Date:Circa 1928
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New Washington Hotel brochure, circa 1925
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. As the city's premier hotel for several decades the New Washington Hotel welcomed many prominent guests over the years, including four U. S. Presidents…
ID Number:2018.3.3.71
Date:Circa 1925
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Washington Hotel stationery, 1905
The Denny Hotel project was begun in Seattle in 1889 by a group of developers that included Seattle founding father Arthur Denny (1822-1899). Unfortunately, the Panic of 1893 halted the proceedings with interiors incomplete, and the building was unfinished until 1903 when developer James A. Moore (1861-1929) bought the building at about Second Avenue and Pine Street. Mr. Moore convinced…
ID Number:2018.3.3.93
Date:1905