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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
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Brochure from the Spring Apartment Hotel, Seattle, circa 1925
The Spring Apartment Hotel was constructed in 1922 for William H. Hainsworth, a representative of the Spring Apartment Hotel Co. The eleven-story building was designed by John Graham Sr. and built by general contractor Hans Petersen for$500,000. There were no retail storefronts and the building was entirely devoted to residential hotel purposes and remained so for three decades.This brochure advertises…
ID Number:2018.3.3.131
Date:Circa 1925
Cartographic material
E-Z Map of Seattle with indicator, 1926
This E-Z Guide Map is a folding map of 1926 Seattle, with a riveted rotating pointer to "easily locate" your destination using a letter-number key. It also highlights bus routes, street cars, hotels, motion picture houses, hospitals and parks, among other Seattle attractions of the time. The back of the map gives an index of streets and the locations of…
ID Number:2019.3.44
Date:1926
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Georgian Hotel card, circa 1910
Seattle's Hotel Georgian, located at 1420 Fourth Avenue, was one of the more ambitious of the early uptown hotels when it opened about 1909. The seven story, brick-faced building had Georgian Revival architectural details such as a rooftop balustrade, keystones, and classical pilasters ornamenting the first floor. The building was torn down in 1971 to enable a larger People's Bank…
ID Number:Lib1987.20.1
Date:Circa 1910
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Georgian Hotel brochure, June 1, 1923
Built about 1920, the Hotel Georgian was located in downtown Seattle at 1420 Fourth Avenue. The seven-story, brick-faced building had many Georgian Revival architectural details, such as quoins, a rooftop balustrade, and keystones. The building was demolished in 1971.The brochure pictured here includes a map of the hotel's location in Seattle's shopping district, one block from the Bon Marche and…
ID Number:Lib1987.20.4
Date:1923
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Arlington Hotel, Seattle, circa 1900
Caption on image: Seattle Photo Co.Photographer's Reference Number: 117
ID Number:Lib1988.33.169
Date:Circa 1900