The Stanwood Hotel, one of our oldest buildings and still serves beer, food and occasionally has had music.  The original building Hotel was built shortly after the 1892 fire that destroyed most of the buildings in Stanwood at the time.  The Hotel has witnessed floods and many changes since that time.  It was originally a gathering place for businessmen, loggers, millworkers, hunters and the occasional tourist.

It’s first owners named it the “Hotel Cottage Home”  according to Allan Anderson.  It usually had a restaurant that served meals.  Advertising in the Stanwood Tidings lists I. F Galloupe, Proprietor, First Class Accommodation, Special Attention paid to Travelers.  1904-06 it was operated by Mr. and Mrs. Ira Galloupe (Stanwood Story,  v. 2 p. 88.).  According to the  Oregon & Washington Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1907 – 1908 the Hotel Stanwood ‘s proprietor was a Mrs. M Helen Shadbolt.

In 1909 the Polk’s Directory of Everett and Snohomish County Washington the Hotel Stanwood listing advertises the
“Bartz & Hansen Proprs (sic), opposite Post Office (when it was on Market St.),
American & European Plan Electric Lights Modern conveniences. The Hotel has been enlarged to 33 rooms and newly furnished.  We can Please the Traveling Public.  Rates Reasonable Meals at all hours Stanwood Wash.”
Allan Bartz owned it until 1911 when he moved to East Stanwood and built the Bartz Hotel near the depot.  A next owner or proprietor was Mrs. M. B. Miller & Co. in 1916 followed by a succession of owners, proprietors, managers.

Before 1922 it was on the Pacific Highway until the highway was re-routed more directly past East Stanwood north to Skagit County along the railroad. The Stanwood Hotel was bypassed.  The next owners we know of were George Bellow and Chris Papps.

In 1933 when prohibition was repealed Clyde Phillips put in a bar and ownership was made out to Sverre Landre and partner Albert Moe. [Moe sold his interest and bought the Central Tavern on the opposite corner. Which he ran for about eight years.  Moe became Mayor in 1949 and a long time volunteer fireman.

When the elegant Palace (later Graham) hotel was taken down, the back bar was sold to the owners of the Stanwood Hotel.  The old mahogany wood spans across the top of a a great wide mirror, supported by hollow shafts in a the manner of the Roman Corinthian columns.

They sold at some point to Sverre Landre followed by Thomas and Irene Craig in 1955. It was around this time a new foundation was put under the building. The outside was covered with 8,500 feet of cedar, half vertical and half horizontal and 75 gallons of stain.  In 1961 the Craigs sold it to Mr. and Mrs. S. N Benjamin from Seattle and many owners and proprietors succeeded them.  In 2012 it was reported in the Everett Herald “Old Hotel restored to Glory” was to be purchased and remodeled by Marilyn and Leonard Guthrie.