Category:Cadillac Hotel

English: The Cadillac Hotel building, in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Built by realtor & attorney David M. Shanks and brick mason Harry T. Mills, it was among the first batch of buildings completed after the great Seattle fire and was fully occupied by the first week of December 1889. Isaac Percival was the contractor. Designed for lodgings, it was first known as the Elliott House, the Dereg Hotel by 1893, becoming the Cadillac Hotel in about 1905, which it would remain until closing in 1968 as a result of stricter new city fire codes and slum policies. It underwent a complete restoration beginning in 1969 where it was converted into an office building. There were also a series of nightclubs in the basement, the last being the Hollywood Underground. It was seriously damaged in the Nisqually earthquake and remained in a precarious state for several years, becoming the poster child for the danger of unreinforced masonry buildings in the city. After rehabilitation by the Historic Seattle PDA, it became the new visitor center of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.