Mayflower Park Hotel

The Bergonian Hotel was built by Stefan Berg, a prominent Seattle realtor and builder, who had previously built a number of other hotels in the city, as well as apartments and family homes.{{cite book |last1=Festin |first1=Trish |last2=McCombs |first2=Audrey |last3=Packer |first3=Craig |last4=Festin |first4=Stevie |title=Seattle's Mayflower Park Hotel |date=2014 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=978-1-4671-3134-6 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zL6EAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6}} It was designed by the firm of Stuart & Wheatley, who had worked with Berg on several previous projects that incorporated his surname (The Stephensberg and Berg, later Biltmore, apartments on Capitol Hill).{{cite news |title=Bergonian Hotel to Be Ready August 1; New 12-story Building Erected at Cost of $750,000 in Times Square Near Completion |work=The Seattle Daily Times |date=Jul 10, 1927 |page=23}} With 240 rooms, it was constructed in six months at a cost of $750,000, opening to the public ahead of schedule on the evening of July 16, 1927.{{cite web|url=https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/mayflower-park-hotel/history.php |title=Mayflower Park Hotel: History |publisher=Historic Hotels of America |accessdate=May 7, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Drosendahl |first1=Glenn |title=Oliver's, the cocktail lounge in the Mayflower Park Hotel, opens on June 26, 1976, as the first "daylight bar" in Seattle and perhaps the state. |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/20320 |website=HistoryLink.org |accessdate=8 May 2020}}{{cite news |title=Bergonian Hotel Is Opened; Throng at Housewarming |work=The Seattle Daily Times |date=Jul 17, 1927 |page=3}} The hotel was sold in 1933 and renamed the Hotel Mayflower. The hotel was renamed the Mayflower Park Hotel in 1974, after it was bought for $1.1 million by a limited partnership that gave control to Marie and Birney Dempcy. The hotel had been in foreclosure and was in need of repairs, necessitating an extensive renovation.{{cite news |last=Mar |first=Jeannie |date=June 24, 1992 |title=Mayflower Park Hotel renovation remodeled a couple's way of life |page=F9 |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19920624&slug=1498861 |work=The Seattle Times |accessdate=May 10, 2020}}

The hotel currently has 160 rooms, and six meeting and banquet rooms.{{cite web|url=http://www.mayflowerpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Mayflower-Park-Hotel-Fact-Sheet.pdf |title=Mayflower Park Hotel Fact Sheet|accessdate=May 7, 2020}} 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.{{cite news |last=Collins |first=Alf |date=October 21, 1988 |title=City Gritty |page=C3 |work=The Seattle Times}} The mall's construction plan originally included demolition of the hotel, but it was saved by a lawsuit from the ownership group.{{cite news |last=Virgin |first=Bill |date=July 19, 2002 |title=Customer loyalty means success: Mayflower Park Hotel celebrates 75 years |page=E1 |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Customer-loyalty-means-success-for-Mayflower-Park-1091639.php |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |accessdate=May 10, 2020}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/mayflower-park-hotel/ |title=Mayflower Park Hotel |publisher=Historic Hotels of America |accessdate=May 7, 2020}}

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• [https://www.mayflowerpark.com/ Mayflower Park Hotel], official site
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