Tourist attraction
Washington Hall
153 14th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Brick fraternal lodge and boarding house that became a landmark jazz and community stage for over a century.
This guide to Washington Hall in Seattle follows the $22,225 bill that Danish immigrants paid in nickels and dimes to build their own lodge in 1908, hiring contractor Hans Pederson before he went on to raise the Arctic Building and the King County Courthouse. It traces the boarding rooms tucked behind the dance floor, cheap beds for newcomers with a trunk, a few words of English and nowhere else to sleep. Look up at the parapet on Fourteenth and Fir, where the same name and date greeted them then.
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