Mayflower Park Hotel
| Mayflower Park Hotel | |
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 Hotel in 2009. The Times Square Building (1916) peeks out at left. | |
  Location within Washington (state) | |
| General information | |
| Location | 405 Olive Way, Seattle, Washington |
| Coordinates | 47°36′44″N 122°20′17″W / 47.612220°N 122.338091°WCoordinates: 47°36′44″N 122°20′17″W / 47.612220°N 122.338091°W |
The Mayflower Park Hotel in Seattle, Washington is a hotel built in 1927 which claims to be the oldest continuously operating hotel in downtown Seattle.[1] Its facade includes extensive terra cotta detailing.[1]
It was opened in 1927 as the Bergonian, built by Stefan Berg, a prominent Seattle builder who had previously built a number of other hotels in the city, as well as family homes.[2] With 240 rooms, it was constructed in six months at a cost of $750,000.[3][4]
It is now a 160-room hotel,[1] and has six meeting and banquet rooms.[5] The hotel was renamed to the Mayflower in 1974 after it was bought for $1.1 million by a limited partnership that gave control to Marie and Birney Dempcy. The Mayflower Park had previously been in foreclosure and in need of repairs, necessitating an extensive renovation.[4][6]
The hotel is adjacent to the Westlake Center, a mall and office complex which was built in the 1980s and has a direct connection between the buildings.[7] The mall's construction plan originally included demolition of the hotel, but it was saved by a lawsuit from the ownership group.[8]
It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America, and was named the "Best Historic Hotel (76-200 Guestrooms)" in the 2017 Historic Hotels Awards of Excellence.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Mayflower Park Hotel". Historic Hotels of America. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ^ Festin, Trish; McCombs, Audrey; Packer, Craig; Festin, Stevie (2014). Seattle's Mayflower Park Hotel. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4671-3134-6.
- ^ "Mayflower Park Hotel: History". Historic Hotels of America. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ^ a b Drosendahl, Glenn. "Oliver's, the cocktail lounge in the Mayflower Park Hotel, opens on June 26, 1976, as the first "daylight bar" in Seattle and perhaps the state". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ "Mayflower Park Hotel Fact Sheet" (PDF). Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ^ Mar, Jeannie (June 24, 1992). "Mayflower Park Hotel renovation remodeled a couple's way of life". The Seattle Times. p. F9. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ^ Collins, Alf (October 21, 1988). "City Gritty". The Seattle Times. p. C3.
- ^ Virgin, Bill (July 19, 2002). "Customer loyalty means success: Mayflower Park Hotel celebrates 75 years". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. E1. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
External links[]
- Mayflower Park Hotel, official site
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