Our fall Hannan House window display featured three early Main Street businesses and two early hotels. The businesses were the Severance Bakery, the Olympia Bar, and Mohn Hardware (later Jones and Mohn).

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The American Hotel was built in 1888, with an annex added in 1908. It was the first banking center and housed Bothell’s first telephone exchange. The building burned down in 1926; the annex remained until being torn down in 1934.

David and Mary Ann Bothell, early settlers originally from Pennsylvania, and the people for whom the town is named, operated a boarding house until it burned in 1895. Soon after, they built the Bothell Hotel, named for both the family and the town. The building stood until 1954, though by then no longer in use as a hotel, at the corner of Main and First Streets (today 101st Ave NE). After its demolition, a brick building went up that first housed Loretta’s Favorite Apparel and today the Tsuga Frame Shop.

Among the tenants of both hotels were barber shops and retail stores. In the museum’s collection are some artifacts that may well have been in those shops.