Rector Hotel

Seattle, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Rector Hotel, a Beaux-Arts structure designed by prominent Seattle architect John Graham, Sr., stands at the southwest corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street in downtown Seattle. Built in the latter half of 1911 for the estate of lumber baron Amos Brown, the building represents an incomplete vision—original plans called for twelve stories in two phases, but only the lower six floors were constructed. Initially serving the tourist trade, the hotel was later renamed the St. Charles and briefly the Governor Hotel during the 1930s. By the 1970s it had transformed into single-resident occupancy housing, and in 1986 was renovated into low-income housing by the Plymouth Housing Group. Located north of Pioneer Square in the shadow of the nearby Smith Tower, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.