Earliest photo of Grand Central Hotel - circa 1903. Courtesy of Denny Croston
As we start the next series, we will look at the only remaining hotel
building of the many that were built in Issaquah near the turn of the last
century.
The Grand Central Hotel was built in 1903 by James Croston Sr., on land
purchased from Isaac and Mary Cooper on May 29, 1902. In this circa 1903 winter
photograph, believed to be the earliest showing the hotel at the left of the
Snoqualmie Falls Power Company's Gilman substation, we see the elevated board
sidewalk, square porch posts, the hotel sign on the railing above the porch and
the small tree with no leaves located behind the picket fence between the
buildings.
