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October 15, 2014

Free tour Oct. 27 of Sorrento Hotel

Photo courtesy of PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection [enlarge]
The Sorrento Hotel on First Hill opened in 1909, in time for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition.

Historic Seattle will offer a free tour of the Sorrento Hotel at 900 Madison St. from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 27.

Owner Michael Malone will talk about turning it into a luxury hotel and the value of preserving Seattle's past.

The hotel opened in 1909. Seattle clothing merchant Samuel Rosenberg invested in The Sorrento to handle the crowds of people expected to visit the city during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. Architect Harlan Thomas convinced Rosenberg that Seattle's topography and harbor views recalled the Italian coast so the new hotel should be designed in the Italian Renaissance style and named Sorrento.

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