{"id":127,"date":"2018-01-26T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statehotel.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:17:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:17:23","slug":"different-world-seattle-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statehotel.com\/blog\/different-world-seattle-1904\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was a Different World in 1904 When Our Building Was Built"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our building dates back 114 years.<\/p>\n

In 1904, the Eitel building debuted as the centerpiece of the new downtown Seattle landscape.<\/p>\n

It’s safe to say a few things have changed since then.<\/p>\n

That year, Seattle was a town of barely 90,000 people. Its entire population could fit inside CenturyLink and Safeco Field.<\/p>\n

The city, famous for its “boom and bust” cycles, had shaken off its old identity of being a timber town, and was now a major stop for prospectors on their way to Alaska or the Yukon to get rich mining gold.<\/p>\n

And with the prospectors came all of their need for amenities, provisions, and entertainment while stopping over in Seattle on their grand adventure.<\/p>\n

Businesses shot up seemingly overnight at times, from lodging to outfitting to gambling to… “temporary companionship.”<\/em><\/p>\n

With the influx new business came new structures. Buildings were all being built from stone and brick instead of wood; we weren’t going to make the same mistake we made in 1889<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite having only a fraction of today’s population, though, that population was growing.<\/p>\n

New faces, families, and businesses were moving to the Northwest, chasing the promise of economic prosperity.<\/p>\n

The buildings were getting taller and more plentiful, and one could expect the cityscape to look entirely different from what it did a decade earlier.<\/p>\n

It was a time of optimism. So much so, that citizens often referred to the “Seattle Spirit,” a can-do attitude that allowed us to transform the city into what we know today.<\/p>\n

Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

Despite Seattle being a different world in 1904 from 2018, there’s some things that are bound to stay the same.<\/p>\n

The same is true for us, too. New building, same Seattle Spirit.<\/p>\n

So while it may look 1904 from a block away,\u00a0we’re busy infusing 114 years of new style and comfort into every last room.<\/p>\n

Out with the old, in with the new. Literally.<\/p>\n

We can’t wait to share it with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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