Calhoun Hotel

Style: Beaux-Arts
City: Seattle, WA
Collection: beaux-arts downtown

The Calhoun Hotel opened in 1909 at the corner of Second Avenue and Virginia Street, the first building completed on the recently regraded site of the Denny Regrade. Attorney and Seattle Corporation Counsel Scott Calhoun, who helped form the Port of Seattle, commissioned local architect W. P. White to design the eight-story, 153-room hotel with ground-floor retail. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 2013.

the style

The hotel was designed in the Beaux-Arts style.

significance

Converted to apartments as the Palladian Apartments by the 1980s, the building was restored back into a hotel in 2014 and is now run as the Kimpton Palladian Hotel.

nearby

Moore Theatre and Hotel Building 160 ft · 1907
Josephinum/New Washington Hotel 360 ft · Renaissance Revival
Butterworth Building 0.1 mi
J.S. Graham Store/Doyle Building 0.2 mi · 1919
Times Square Building 0.2 mi · Beaux-Arts
Windham Apartments 0.2 mi · Neoclassical · 1925

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