Two buildings on opposite sides of the street—one historic, the other a 21-floor modern tower—make up Washington state's fourth largest hotel and one of its best, with elegant accommodations and a plethora of amenities. Rooms in the main hotel have hand-carved mahogany furniture and fine Irish linens, and though the sleeping areas are not huge, the marble bathrooms, with big soaking tubs and...
The Davenport Hotel has been world famous in its own right since it opened in 1914 and quickly became the standard for hotel excellence as one of the the first hotels with air conditioning, a central vacuum system and housekeeping carts.…