Seattle ยท Near Pioneer Square
The Arctic Club Hotel
A. Warren Gould's Beaux-Arts clubhouse for men who made money in the Alaska gold rush, with terra cotta walrus heads, and a hotel since 2008.
- Built
- 1917NRHP nomination gives 1917 for the Arctic Building (old buildings on the site were torn down in 1916); the hotel calls it a landmark 'since 1916'. Hotel use began in 2008.
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- Architect
- A. Warren Gould
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Area
- Near Pioneer Square
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Local landmark
The story
The Arctic Building was built for the Arctic Club, a social club of men who had made money in the Alaska gold rush, and is known for the terra cotta walrus heads on its facade. Architect A. Warren Gould designed it; the nomination dates it to 1917. The City of Seattle sold the building in 2005 and it opened as the 120-room Arctic Club Hotel in 2008, later flying the DoubleTree flag. After a 2022 receivership sale it is run as The Arctic Club Hotel by the Oxford Collection of Bend, Oregon.
The ghost story
The Seattle Times' guide to haunted hotels ties the fifth floor to Congressman Marion Zioncheck, who died in a fall from his fifth-floor office window in 1936; visitors report elevator doors opening and closing on their own, footsteps in empty halls, and pacing and a freezing breeze in room 517.
Source: theticket.seattletimes.com
Good to know
- Address: 700 3rd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.