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Seattle, Washington - Perry Hotel - ARCHITECTURE: The Perry Hotel was one of the earliest revival-style apartment towers that went up in First Hill just before the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in 1909. Large \"apartment hotels\" catered to a well-to-do class of renters, and continued to be built in the neighborhood until about 1930, when the 50-apartment Gainsborough was completed. The New York, NY-based architectural firm of Heins and LaFarge designed the Perry Apartment Hotel, assisted by the Seattle partnership Somervell and Coté, in 1906-1907; both W. Marbury Somervell (1872-1938) and Joseph Cote (b. 1874) worked for Hein and LaFarge in New York, and came to Seattle to supervise the construction of that firm\'s Roman Catholic Saint James Cathedral (completed 1907). Mother Maria Francesca Cabrini (1850-1917), who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSC) Order, purchased the hotel in 1915, bargaining the price down from $700,000 to $190,000. She founded 67 charitable institutions in the U.S., some medical, and the Columbus Sanitarium, opened in 1917, was her last. It served the city during the influenza pandemic of 1918 and was renamed the \"Columbus Hospital\" in 1924. Mother Cabrini was canonized as a saint in the Catholic church in 1946. The Perry Hotel (also called the \"Hotel Perry\") was designed in the Tudor Revival Style and had seven stories. According to an advertisement in the Seattle Times (11/06/1910, p. 16), the Perry Hotel was \"A beautiful fireproof structure containing 250 rooms, replete with all modern accessories and provided with every requisite for the most exacting patrons.\" In 1910, J. Guerrieri was the manager. The Perry Hotel/Columbus Hospital was demolished in 05/1995; affordable housing for seniors was built by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSC) on the site in 2006. This White Border Era (1915-30) postcard is in good condition, but shows some edge wear. White Advertising Bureau, Inc. Hancock Bldg., Seattle.