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| Hotel Butler, Seattle, U.S.A. (W. G. King, Mgr.,) Lowman & Hanford Co., Pub., Seattle, Wash. |
Past Post: Hotel Butler
February 26th, 2009 @ 1:14 am by Cliffe | Sorted Past Post |
Past Post today is a century old Hotel Butler card. Though it is now a parking garage (with original foundation) the 1890 built Butler was once one of Seattle’s leading hotels and an icon of Prohibition revelry. There’s a fairly extensive Wikipedia entry on the structure. Department of Neighborhoods has an entry as well. Click for the high res scan.
“…it was all in the course of an evening’s fun to have the prohibition agents swoop in, seize partially concealed bottles of liquor from under the tables, perhaps arrest an employe (sic) or two, and then depart amid boos and not-too-subtle insults.” Awesome.
Such a crime that the current building at that site got past design review. I know they saved the facade of the ground floor, but other than that, it’s a distaster. Couldn’t they at least cover the concrete with a brick facade? And what were they thinking with those hubcaps?
http://maps.google.com/maps?g=seattle&ie=UTF8&ll=47.602303,-122.332517&spn=0,359.99786&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=47.602379,-122.33234&panoid=HrKuuxZ2cDBqReTkn4h7Mw&cbp=12,263.21115128119885,,0,-23.703007518796994
And it sits right next to the biggest crime of them all.
The upper part of the Butler was actually torn down in the mid-1930s; see the Wikipedia article (which I wrote).