Mayflower Park Hotel

The Mayflower Park Hotel in Seattle, Washington is a historic hotel built in 1927, which claims to be the oldest continuously operating hotel in downtown Seattle.[1] Its façade includes extensive terra cotta detailing.[1]

Mayflower Park Hotel
Hotel in 2009. The Times Square Building (1916) peeks out at left.
Mayflower Park Hotel is located in Washington (state)
Mayflower Park Hotel
Location within Washington (state)
General information
Location405 Olive Way, Seattle, Washington
Coordinates47.612220°N 122.338091°W / 47.612220; -122.338091

History

The Bergonian Hotel was built by Stefan Berg, a prominent Seattle realtor and builder, who had previously built a number of other hotels in the city, as well as apartments and family homes.[2] It was designed by the firm of Stuart & Wheatley, who had worked with Berg on several previous projects that incorporated his surname (The Stephensberg and Berg, later Biltmore, apartments on Capitol Hill).[3] With 240 rooms, it was constructed in six months at a cost of $750,000, opening to the public ahead of schedule on the evening of July 16, 1927.[4][5][6] The hotel was sold in 1933 and renamed the Hotel Mayflower. The hotel was renamed the Mayflower Park Hotel in 1974, after it was bought for $1.1 million by a limited partnership that gave control to Marie and Birney Dempcy. The hotel had been in foreclosure and was in need of repairs, necessitating an extensive renovation.[5][7]

The hotel currently has 160 rooms,[1] and six meeting and banquet rooms.[8] 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.[9] The mall's construction plan originally included demolition of the hotel, but it was saved by a lawsuit from the ownership group.[10]

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
  1. "Mayflower Park Hotel". Historic Hotels of America. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  2. 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.
  3. "Bergonian Hotel to Be Ready August 1; New 12-story Building Erected at Cost of $750,000 in Times Square Near Completion". The Seattle Daily Times. Jul 10, 1927. p. 23.
  4. "Mayflower Park Hotel: History". Historic Hotels of America. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  5. "Bergonian Hotel Is Opened; Throng at Housewarming". The Seattle Daily Times. Jul 17, 1927. p. 3.
  6. 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.
  7. "Mayflower Park Hotel Fact Sheet" (PDF). Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  8. Collins, Alf (October 21, 1988). "City Gritty". The Seattle Times. p. C3.
  9. Virgin, Bill (July 19, 2002). "Customer loyalty means success: Mayflower Park Hotel celebrates 75 years". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. E1. Retrieved May 10, 2020.


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