PCAD - Walter E. Rice

Exterior view of the Sorrento Hotel, Seattle, WA, 2008. From Wikimedia Commons, photograph by Joe Mabel

Exterior view of the Weatherwax High School #1 in flames, Aberdeen, 2002; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Eric Hensley

Newspaper advertisement for the Hotel Sorrento, Seattle, WA, 1925. From Hotel Sorrento advertisement, Seattle Daily Times. 07/23/1925, p. 8, accessed 05/29/2025

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Associated with the firm network

Thomas, Russell and Rice, Architects

PCAD id: 2654

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Aberdeen School District #5, Weatherwax, J.M., High School #1, Aberdeen, WA	1909	Aberdeen	WA
Sketch of a ship
Sorrento Hotel, First Hill, Seattle, WA	1907-1908	Seattle	WA

Publications

"The Sorrento: a link with Seattle's elegant past ", Argus, 90: 15, 2, 04/15/1983. Pacific Builder and Engineer, 11/11/1911. "The Architectural League of the Pacific Coast", Seattle Architectural Club Yearbook 1910, np, 1910. "A getaway that's right next door", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, D5, col. 4-6, 01/05/1984. "Sorrento ordered to rehire fired help", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, C1, col. 1 , 03/15/1983. "Sorrento agrees to pay $100,000 in back wages", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, C2, col. 1-2, 11/29/1983. "Sorrento Hotel ceases operations", Seattle Times, 59, 07/08/1964. "Sorrento hotel sold; owner to reopen", Seattle Times, 10, 10/30/.1964. "Grand hotel: The Sorrento's Hunt Club offers a bygone glamour on your plate", Seattle Weekly, 29, 10/22/2003. Jackson, Leslie , "The sauntering Seattleite -- the Sorrento Hotel", Seattlife, 57-59, 02/1940. Johnston, Norman J., "Harlan Thomas", Shaping Seattle Architecture, 129, 1994. Johnston, Norman J., "Harlan Thomas", Shaping Seattle Architecture, 1994. Sorrento Hotel, Seattle: High atop Seattle's First Hill, Hunt, Herbert , Kaylor, F. C., Washington, West of the Cascades, 92-95, 1917.

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