Mayflower Park Hotel

The Mayflower Park Hotel in Seattle, Washington is a hotel built in 1927 which claims to be the oldest continuously operating hotel in downtown Seattle.[1] Its facade includes extensive terra cotta detailing.[1]

Mayflower Park Hotel
Hotel in 2009. The Times Square Building (1916) peeks out at left.
Location within Washington (state)
General information
Location	405 Olive Way, Seattle, Washington
Coordinates	47.612220°N 122.338091°W / 47.612220; -122.338091

It was opened in 1927 as the Bergonian, built by Stefan Berg, a prominent Seattle builder who had previously built a number of other hotels in the city, as well as family homes.[2] With 240 rooms, it was constructed in six months at a cost of $750,000.[3][4]

It is now a 160-room hotel,[1] and has six meeting and banquet rooms.[5] The hotel was renamed to the Mayflower in 1974 after it was bought for $1.1 million by a limited partnership that gave control to Marie and Birney Dempcy. The Mayflower Park had previously been in foreclosure and in need of repairs, necessitating an extensive renovation.[4][6]

The hotel is adjacent to the Westlake Center, a mall and office complex which was built in the 1980s and has a direct connection between the buildings.[7] The mall's construction plan originally included demolition of the hotel, but it was saved by a lawsuit from the ownership group.[8]

It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America, and was named the "Best Historic Hotel (76-200 Guestrooms)" in the 2017 Historic Hotels Awards of Excellence.[1]