Ketchikan ยท Southeast: Ketchikan
New York Hotel
A 1924 wood-frame hotel on pilings overlooking Thomas Basin, once owned and run by George Shimizu's family; book a New York room, not the Bayside.
- Built
- 1924Built in 1924; rehabilitated in the late 1980s and early 1990s and reopened in 1991.
- Style
- 1920s wood-frame commercial on pilings
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Price
- $
- Area
- Southeast: Ketchikan
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
The two-story wood-frame hotel and cafe went up on pilings at 207-211 Stedman Street in 1924, overlooking Thomas Basin. The National Register nomination for the Stedman-Thomas Historic District names George Shimizu and his family, among the Asian immigrant business owners on Stedman Street, as the owners and operators of the New York Hotel and Cafe. The neighborhood’s Japanese community had a small school and meeting house above the street. The building was rehabilitated with original materials and reopened as a hotel in 1991. It keeps its original wood storefront, doors and windows, which the nomination calls among the best detailed in Ketchikan.
Good to know
- Breakfast: available
- No elevator
- No pets
- Address: 211 Stedman St, Ketchikan, AK 99901
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.