Occidental Hotel 1883 Seattle Floor Plans

We also offer a 24 hour butler s snack pantry in our south wing coffee tea hot chocolate cookie jar refrigerator and a 24 hour demi kitchen in our north wing.

Occidental hotel 1883 seattle floor plans.

The occidental hotel 1 opened in 03 1865 and achieved success for the 18 years it stood. Prior to the fire of 1889 the occidental seattle hotel 1864 1887 1889 destroyed was the city s premier tourist oriented hotel although there were numerous other hotels located within the commercial district. Check for available units at occidental in oxnard ca. The entire occidental hotel is a smoke free building all rooms include.

However within four years some 63 hotels were in operation. The lobby of the seattle hotel. John collins built a new grander occidental hotel in 1883. Collins commissioned architect donald mackay b.

Collins then changed the name to seattle hotel. After its destruction in the great fire of june 6 1889 collins undeterred by the fire commissioned stephen meany who had worked in mackay s office and was the nephew of edmond meany the historian and once president of the university of washington to design a new hotel known as the occidental hotel and then later as the seattle hotel. Courtesy michael maslan by comparison klondyke s seattle hotel in 1898. Rushed to completion after the fire the new occidental filled the entire triangular block.

Its owner john collins tore the first facility down in 1883 and rebuilt the taller more lavish occidental hotel 2 in 1883 1884. Koda sales gallery 510 occidental avenue s suite 521 seattle wa 98104 206 317 8579. It is standing in the shadows behind the power pole at the far right on the corner of. With the prosperity of the gold rush beginning in 1897 collins changed its name to the seattle hotel.

In february 1884 the puget sound national bank moved into its ground floor room. Heat air conditioning cable television and free wireless internet access. Make occidental your new home. The seattle washington city directory 1892 also listed another occidental hotel in operation on the northeast corner of south 2nd avenue and main street.

At least a dozen hotels were destroyed in the great fire of 1889. The occidental hotel stands near the center of this view looking south on 1st avenue. The occidental s dining room was in an attached house accessible from the street or from within the hotel.