Grand Pacific Hotel ( first known as the California Block or the Starr Building ) is a historic building in Seattle , Washington located at 1115-1117 1st Avenue between Spring and Seneca Streets in the city 's central business district . The building was constructed in 1890 Often incorrectly cited as 1898 during the building boom that followed the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 . The building had served as a hotel nearly since its construction , with the Ye Kenilworth Inn , operated by Minnie Hayward , on the upper floors in 1893 . The hotel was refurnished and reopened in 1902 as the Grand Pacific Hotel , most likely named after the hotel of the same name in Chicago . It played a role during the Yukon Gold Rush as one of many hotels that served traveling miners and also housed the offices for the Seattle Woollen Mill , an important outfitter for the Klondike
Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
Grand Pacific Hotel (Seattle)