Grand Pacific Hotel (Seattle)
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The Grand Pacific Hotel (first known as the Starr Building and sometimes the California Block[2][lower-roman 1]) is a historic building in Seattle, Washington, United States. It located at 1115-1117 1st Avenue between Spring and Seneca Streets in the city's central business district. The building was designed in July 1889 and constructed in 1890 [Often incorrectly cited as 1898] during the building boom that followed the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. Though designed as an office building, the Grand Central had served as a Single room occupancy hotel nearly since its construction, with the Ye Kenilworth Inn on the upper floors during the 1890s. The hotel was refurnished and reopened in 1900 as the Grand Pacific Hotel, most likely named after the hotel of the same name in Chicago that had just recently been rebuilt. It played a role during the Yukon Gold Rush as one of many hotels that served traveling miners and also housed the offices for the Seattle Woolen Mill, an important outfitter for the Klondike.[3]
Grand Pacific Hotel | |
Location | 1115-1117 1st Ave. & 1118 Post Ave, Seattle, Washington |
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Coordinates | 47°36′36″N 122°20′10″W |
Built | 1890 |
Architect | William E. Boone |
Architectural style | Richardsonian Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 82004236[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 13, 1982 |
The Grand Pacific Hotel is a substantial four-story brick-and-stone building designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and remains a rare surviving example of its kind outside of the Pioneer Square district. The Building was designed by one of Seattle's most important 19th century architects, William E. Boone, and is one of his earliest surviving projects.[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 around the same time as the adjacent Colonial Hotel and both are Seattle city landmarks. The two hotels were interconnected during restoration in the early 1980s and today are collectively known as the Colonial Grand Pacific.