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896: 75: 255: 59: 214:. He commissioned prominent local Architect W. P. White to design an eight-story hotel building, containing 153 rooms on the upper floors and retail at ground level. It was the first building to be completed on the site of the Denny Regrade. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 2013. Converted to apartments by the 1980s, In 2014 it was restored back into a hotel and is currently run by the 903: 312:, which he turned around and sold for quick profit. By 1912, management of the hotel was taken over by veteran caterer J. Guerrieri, who overhauled the cafe, turning the hotel into a social destination for guest speakers, tea parties, masquerade dances and book clubs. The hotel remained popular through a succession of managers throughout the 1910s and 1920s. 82: 304:
provided the building's external cladding. With construction wrapping up by early 1910, Calhoun's building was the first new building completed in the Denny Regrade neighborhood. Despite the building's completion, the hotel itself didn't open until October 1910 under lease to Lillie B. Wisner,
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where he proved himself as an influential and popular public speaker. In this position he became involved in many of the ordinances surrounding the multiple regrading and rezoning projects happening around the city at the time, affecting thousands of properties in the city, including his own.
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to take charge of the Marine Hospital, which George soon relocated back to Port Townsend, where it and the customs house had been forcibly removed from several years before. The family moved to Seattle in 1876 where George opened a private practice in
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from his brother, Scott relocated to Seattle for good and soon began acquiring real estate in the city as well as pursuing an attorney position in city government. He was appointed City Tax Attorney in 1904 and by 1905 was named city
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on the building's mezzanine level. In 2014 the current owners undertook an entire restoration and conversion of the building back into a hotel, though keeping the Palladian name. The 97-room Palladian Hotel is currently run by the
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In 1909 Calhoun commissioned noted local architect W.P. White to design an 8-story, $ 150,000 hotel for his property at the Northeast corner of 2nd Avenue and Virginia Street, in an area recently leveled by the
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In 1928 part of the mezzanine level in the lobby was remodeled into a suite of studios for radio Station KVL which sent out its first broadcast on June 22 with a dedication address by governor
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By the 1980s the Hotel was exclusively apartments and in 1984 it was bought by Palladian Associates, who changed the name to the Palladian Apartments, apparently inspired by the
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Within a month of opening, Calhoun sold the hotel to the Interlaken Land Company for $ 265,000 as well as $ 160,000 worth of lots in the company's new subdivision near today's
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previously the manager of the Hotel Stander. The new hotel boasted 153 rooms for short-term and long-term guests with hardwood finish throughout and tiled bathrooms.
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where he was among the first class to graduate in 1892. He would spend the next few years going back and forth between Seattle and
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and poised to become the new heart of Seattle's commercial core. His design was for a restrained
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Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
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Meanwhile, the young Scott Calhoun had relocated to California to study law at the new
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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
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where they all remained until returning to a very different Seattle in 1896.
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington (state)
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle
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building composed of dark red brick, trimmed with white
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Palladian Apartments
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Calhoun Hotel is located in Seattle WA Downtown
Seattle, Washington
47°36′43″N 122°20′30″W / 47.61194°N 122.34167°W / 47.61194; -122.34167
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Seattle, Washington
Corporation Counsel
Port of Seattle
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
Port Townsend, Washington
New Brunswick, Canada
Maine
Port Angeles
Pioneer Square
La Conner

Stanford University
San Francisco
Klondike Gold Rush
Corporation Counsel
Denny Regrade
Beaux Arts
terra cotta
cornice
Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company
Interlaken Park
Roland H. Hartley
Palladian windows

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