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AKA: Harvey Rooms, Ballard, Seattle, WA; Starlight Hotel, Ballard, Seattle, WA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - banks (buildings); built works - dwellings -public accommodations - hotels; built works - dwellings -public accommodations - inns
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1902
2 stories
The American-Scandinavian Bank erected this two-story corner business block in 1902. Many new immigrant communities created banks designed to serve their own ethnic group in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The American-Scandinavian Bank operated until the late 1920s, when the building was repurposed as a hotel. At this time, the neighborhood was filled with Scandinavian transplants working in thriving fishing and lumber businesses. According to Images of American: Early Ballard: "This building would be reincarnated as the Harvey Rooms, a notorious brothel, and later as the Starlight Hotel." (See Julie D. Pheasant-Albright, Images of American: Early Ballard, [Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007], p. 50.)
The main office of the American-Scandinavian Bank was in the Arctic Building in Downtown Seattle.
The Ballard Inn, containing 16 guest rooms, opened in the bank building in 2011.
PCAD id: 17684
