File:Washington Hotel, Seattle, 1904 (MOHAI 1019).jpg

English: Denny Hotel, Seattle, ca. 1895

English: Caption on border: Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer, 625 Colman Block, Seattle.

Handwritten on mount: Denny Hotel, later Wash. Hotel.

Seattle's Hotel Washington, known as the Denny Hotel when it opened in 1890, sat grandly on top of Denny Hill between Second and Fourth Avenues and Stewart and Virginia Streets. The elegant building survived only until 1906, when the western part of Denny Hill was leveled.

Caption by MOHAI staff.

• Subjects: Hotels--Washington (State)--Seattle; Neighborhoods--Washington (State)--Seattle

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Date ("circa 1895") provided by MOHAI staff is certainly wrong, and attribution to Asahel Curtis almost as certainly wrong. This appears to be a glass slide (presumably a magic lantern slide) deriving from File:Looking northwest from 5th Ave and Pike St toward the Washington hotel, Seattle, Washington, 1904 (LEE 106).jpg which is in the James Patrick Lee Collection at University of Washington Libraries & accredited to Lee (who worked for the City of Seattle). Curtis often bought exclusive or non-exclusive rights to other people's work, usually from periods predating his own career, but apparently in this case not.

As for the date: the Lee collection is pretty well organized, and unlike Curtis he tended to date his work pretty precisely, and the verso there says 1904. Then again, it also says it's from 4th & Pike and clearly it is from 5th and Pike, so there might be some wiggle on that date, but it certainly is not off by a decade! See also the image notes you get by hovering on File:Looking northwest from 5th Ave and Pike St toward the Washington hotel, Seattle, Washington, 1904 (LEE 106).jpg, which pin down the date pretty well from internal evidence.