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, including four U. S. Presidents and Elvis Presley. In 1963 the hotel was sold to the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle as a residence for senior citizens, and its name was changed to the Josephinum. As of 2018 the Josephinum remains an apartment building for low-income residents and recently homeless individuals. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The green "Correspondence Folder" pictured here was placed by the New Washington Hotel in the guest rooms, and contains several pieces of stationery and envelopes. The photos of Seattle on the stationery include an image of the MV Kalakala, a ferry operating on Puget Sound from 1935-1967, and an image of the original Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge (the I-90 floating bridge on Lake Washington), which opened in 1940.
Caption information source: http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/8914 Caption information source: https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/nrhp/text/89001607.PDF
Physical Description: 1 folder ; 8.5 x 11.25 in. + 5 pictorial envelopes ; 9.5 x 4.25 in. + 6 pictorial sheets ; 7 x 10.25 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.
