The State Hotel is a “contemporary downtown Seattle boutique” in a not-so-contemporary building.
Welcome to the first installation of a new monthly column by Meg van Huygen. Each month, she’ll tell the story of a particular building, bridge, or other historic place in the Pacific Northwest—and the people who created them.
In 2019, when upscale American bistro Ben Paris moved into the freshly renovated State Hotel, its name referenced a slice of now-obscure Seattle history. Between the 1910s and 1970s, sportsman and entrepreneur Ben Paris owned a chain of restaurants that flecked downtown—one of which occupied the same address at 1501 Second Avenue. But despite its lavish
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