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 then-President Theodore Roosevelt to stay at the newly renamed Washington Hotel, and the hotel flourished until 1906 when it was demolished in preparation for the Denny Hill Regrade Project. Mr. Moore sold property adjoining his still-extant Moore Theatre to real estate investors John Edward Chilberg (1867-1954) and James Crawford Marmaduke (1871-1945) in 1908, and they opened the New Washington Hotel on Stewart Street and Second Avenue in what is now Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.
The blank piece of stationary pictured here features the letterhead of the first Washington Hotel, dubbed the "Scenic Hotel of the World," due to its location on top of Denny Hill, looking down on the City of Seattle.
Caption information source: http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/5110 Caption information source: "Denny/Washington Hotel (Seattle)," by Paul Dorpat, HistoryLink.org Essay 2990.
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