{"id":2693,"date":"2020-09-16T20:35:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:22:35","slug":"the-stanwood-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=2693","title":{"rendered":"The Stanwood Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Stanwood Hotel, one of our oldest buildings and still serves beer, food and occasionally has had music.\u00a0 The original building Hotel was built shortly after the 1892 fire that destroyed most of the buildings in Stanwood at the time.\u00a0 The Hotel has witnessed floods and many changes since that time.\u00a0 It was originally a gathering place for businessmen, loggers, millworkers, hunters and the occasional tourist.<\/p>\n

It’s first owners named it the “Hotel Cottage Home”\u00a0 according to Allan Anderson.\u00a0 It usually had a restaurant that served meals.\u00a0 Advertising in the Stanwood Tidings lists I. F Galloupe, Proprietor, First Class Accommodation, Special Attention paid to Travelers.\u00a0<\/em> 1904-06 it was operated by Mr. and Mrs. Ira Galloupe (Stanwood Story,\u00a0 v. 2 p. 88.<\/em>).\u00a0 According to the\u00a0 Oregon & Washington Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1907 \u2013 1908<\/em> the Hotel Stanwood ‘s proprietor was a Mrs. M Helen Shadbolt.<\/p>\n

In 1909 the Polk\u2019s Directory of Everett and Snohomish County Washington<\/em> the Hotel Stanwood listing advertises the
\n\u201cBartz & Hansen Proprs (sic), opposite Post Office (when it was on Market St.),
\nAmerican & European Plan Electric Lights Modern conveniences. The Hotel has been enlarged to 33 rooms and newly furnished.\u00a0 We can Please the Traveling Public.\u00a0 Rates Reasonable Meals at all hours Stanwood Wash.\u201d
\nAllan Bartz owned it until 1911 when he moved to East Stanwood and built the Bartz Hotel near the depot.\u00a0 A next owner or proprietor was Mrs. M. B. Miller & Co. in 1916 followed by a succession of owners, proprietors, managers.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 The next owners we know of were George Bellow and Chris Papps.<\/p>\n

In 1933 when prohibition was repealed Clyde Phillips put in a bar and ownership was made out to Sverre Landre and partner Albert Moe.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.\u00a0 Moe became Mayor in 1949 and a long time volunteer fireman.<\/p>\n

When the elegant Palace (later Graham) hotel was taken down, the back bar was sold to the owners of the Stanwood Hotel.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 In 1961 the Craigs sold it to Mr. and Mrs. S. N Benjamin from Seattle and many owners and proprietors succeeded them.\u00a0 In 2012 it was reported in the Everett Herald<\/em> \u201cOld Hotel restored to Glory\u201d was to be purchased and remodeled by Marilyn and Leonard Guthrie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Stanwood Hotel, one of our oldest buildings and still serves beer, food and occasionally has had music.\u00a0 The original building Hotel was built shortly after the 1892 fire that destroyed most of the buildings in Stanwood at the time.\u00a0 The Hotel has witnessed floods and many changes since that time.\u00a0 It was originally a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-sites-tour","category-historical-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}