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 new kind of guest, single women. The hotel was torn down in July 1980 to make way for the north cylindrical tower of the Westin Hotel.
Photographer's number: 1609A
Caption information source: Pacific Coast Architecture Database, https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/18151/
ID Number: 1991.22.2.7
Date: Circa 1929
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : b&w ; 7.5 x 9.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv69438
Credit: MOHAI, Pacific Stone Company Photograph Albums, 1991.22.2.7
