The Denny Hotel: Seattle’s Grand Bet on Itself
As the city raises nearly $100,000 to build a luxury hotel, workers break ground for excavation, signaling a new era of civic ambition and commercial confidence.
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WORK IS ORDERED BEGUN.
Rid* fop tfc* Grading: of tbe Denny Hotel Called for.
The amount of stock in the Denny hotel project now amounts to $96,000. The canvass by the committee has not been very active during the past few days as it has been considered that the fund is practically raised. Several well-known citizens who have not yet been seen and others who are absent from the city have signified their intention of subscribing such amounts to the fund as leave its successful completion unquestionable.
The list, including the $50,000 subscription of Mr. A. A. Denny, now is: A. A. Denny $50,000 T. G. Burke $10,000 Thos. Minor $5,000 H. V. Hoyt $4,000 J. P. Lowman $3,000 Foster & Delemere $2,000 L. S. Hunt $1,500 Frei & Bailey $1,000 Amos Brown $1,000 Gen. Kinnear $1,000 Matt's Transfer $750 Fisons & Burke $750 J. M. Thompson $750 Merru Bros $1,000 Scarry & Marr $750 Howe & Knipea $750 C. C. Calkins $1,000 J. McBrann $1,200 H. & K. Risteen $1,000 J. A. Dewey & Co $1,500 T. C. Miller $1,000 H. K. Hall $1,000 Fred. A. Smead $1,000 L. H. Ormsby & Co $1,000 J. W. Edwards $1,200 Finnegan Bros $1,600 I. I. Peck $1,000 H. Hasford $1,600 W. McMicken $1,000 Maurice McMicken $1,950 A. B. Wiman $1,500 J. H. McGraw $1,600 Whit & Co $1,000 Carl. David & Morehouse $1,500 J. Parry $1,000 C. H. Kittinger $1,100 Sam. B. Kittinger $1,000 A. R. Wittier $1,000 O. M. Roberts $1,000 Seattle Hardware Co $1,080 A. U. Painter $1,400 C. P. Stone $1,000 Crawford & Conover $500 R. B. Downing $300 O. H. Heilbron $250 William D. Wood $100 J. N. Wallingford $500 J. V. Gardner $100 Thomas W. Prosser $50 Lan. C. Parke $50 Total $96,000
The trustees of the Denny hotel held meeting last night and, after hearing the report of the canvassing committee, decided to advertise for bids for the excavation of the proposed building. The comparative ease with which the greater part of the fund had been raised was highly encouraging to the trustees, and assured them that they were being endorsed by the people of Seattle in their efforts to provide a hotel building that will be a credit alike to the projectors and to the community. The bids for the excavation are to be handed in next Saturday. The contract will be let immediately, and the work will be finished, it is expected, within a month from that time. The hotel will be completed by June 1, at the furthest.
The Denny Hotel was one of Seattle’s first major luxury hotels, symbolizing the city's transition from a rough-and-tumble logging town to a sophisticated commercial hub. Its construction in the early 1900s mirrored modern development booms where private capital and civic pride converge to reshape the skyline, often displacing older neighborhoods in the process.
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