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| Title | Photo of Calkins Hotel, Mercer Island, 1891 |
| Date | 1891 |
| Notes | Entrepreneur C.C Calkins built this elaborate structure in the late 1880s on the north shore of Mercer Island as a resort, restaurant and hotel. Excursion steamers visited the Calkins Hotel, and visitors enjoyed its beaufilly landscaped gardens and walks. The hotel burned to the ground on July 2, 1908. |
| Personal Names | Calkins, C.C. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Mercer Island; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact The Mercer Island Historical Society, P.O. Box 108, Mercer Island, 98040, 206-232-6187, http://www.mihistory.org/ |
| Credit Line | Mercer Island Historical Society; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Mercer Island Historical Society |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
