Grand Pacific Hotel
Washington, United States
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The Grand Pacific Hotel is a four-story brick-and-stone structure in Seattle's central business district, designed by prominent nineteenth-century architect William E. Boone and completed in 1890 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Originally conceived as an office building (and initially known as the Starr Building), it quickly evolved into a single-room occupancy hotel, with the Ye Kenilworth Inn occupying its upper floors during the 1890s before being refurbished and reopened as the Grand Pacific Hotel in 1900, likely named after Chicago's recently rebuilt Grand Pacific. The building served a vital role during the Yukon Gold Rush, accommodating traveling miners while also housing offices for the Seattle Woolen Mill, a key outfitter for the Klondike trade. Built during the post-fire reconstruction boom following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, it remains a rare surviving example of Richardsonian Romanesque outside Pioneer Square. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, the Grand Pacific was interconnected with the adjacent Colonial Hotel during early 1980s restoration and is now collectively known as the Colonial Grand Pacific.
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- National Register of Historic Places listed place
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- Washington, United States
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