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In 1895, C.M. Maltby operated the Hotel Tremont at South 2nd Avenue and Main Street. The hotel, pictured as a six-story structure in the 1895 Polk's City Directory (p. 10), contained 115 rooms and advertised itself as a "fire-proof building" with "elevator, steam heat, baths and electric bells." Rates varied from 50 cents, 75 cents and one dollar per day, with "special rates by the week or month." Stylistically, the building resembled other eclectic, Richardsonian Romanesque work being done by Elmer H. Fisher in Seattle just after the 1889 Great Fire. The hotel was named for Boston's famous Tremont House hotel erected in 1829 by architect Isaiah Rogers (1800-1869). A four-story, Greek Revival urban block, Tremont House became known as the first luxury hotel, complete with indoor plumbing, locked guest rooms, bellhops and free soap; it closed in 1895.

PCAD id: 19403