One of Seattle 's most elegant hotels , the building that was to become the Butler Hotel was built shortly after the Great Seattle Fire . Some years prior , Hillory Butler had owned and operated a truck garden on the quarter-block lot practically center of town and lived there in a small house . One of his conditions for the erection of a major building on his property in 1875 was that it would bear his name in perpetuity . The pre-fire Butler was a three-story wooden building
Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
Butler Hotel