Light filters through sheets of purple crystal onto a dining room large enough to seat six hundred. Guests in suits and silks crowd around the orchestra, drinking, dining, and dancing.

This is opening night at the Westholme Hotel in 1911, an unexpected venture by the Westholme Lumber Company that would weave itself through the social fabric of the city for over a century.

When the hotel finally closes its doors, it sits empty. A fire breaks out and burns until there’s nothing left. But that’s not where Westholme’s legacy ends.

The Westholme Hotel is ready to start its next chapter.