Mayflower Park Hotel
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| Mayflower Park Hotel | |
|---|---|
 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°W / 47.612220; -122.338091 |
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]
The Bergonian Hotel was built by Stephen 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]
On January 6, 2024, the hotel lost Michael Basconcillo, a 27-year bellman/valet/security guard. Many considered “Michael B” to be the face of the hotel. A famous photo of him opening the door and tipping his iconic bolo hat still resides in the lobby, along with his signature gloves and his hat.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "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.
- ↑ "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. July 10, 1927. p. 23.
- ↑ "Mayflower Park Hotel: History". Historic Hotels of America. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- 1 2 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 May 8, 2020.
- ↑ "Bergonian Hotel Is Opened; Throng at Housewarming". The Seattle Daily Times. July 17, 1927. p. 3.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Mayflower Park Hotel Fact Sheet" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 7, 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
Media related to Mayflower Park Hotel at Wikimedia Commons
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