"Father Mulligan's Heritage Bar". Old seminary reopens as $57M hotel
All around The Lodge at Saint Edward State Park are reminders that it was once a seminary, built in the 1930s to educate young men for the priesthood.
A photo of the Rev. Thomas Mulligan, the seminary’s first president, is hung prominently at the bar named after him. A restaurant is in the old dining hall, and the icebox doors cloistered nuns used in their kitchen were built into the preparation area. The hotel rooms, like the rest of the building, have original windows — and the nightly rates in the mid-$300s are roughly the same as yearly tuition was for the students.
A photo of the Rev. Thomas Mulligan, the seminary’s first president, is hung prominently at the bar named after him. A restaurant is in the old dining hall, and the icebox doors cloistered nuns used in their kitchen were built into the preparation area. The hotel rooms, like the rest of the building, have original windows — and the nightly rates in the mid-$300s are roughly the same as yearly tuition was for the students.
Father Mulligan's Heritage Bar
The reminders also come in the form of Latin phrases carved in various spots throughout the Romanesque Revival building, including one over an entrance that reads “SPES MESSIS IN SEMINE,” or, “The hope of the harvest is in the seed.”
It’s perhaps a good motto for the building’s new purpose, as The Lodge at Saint Edward State Park, opening this weekend within the eponymous park near Kenmore, on the northeast shore of Lake Washington. The $57 million hotel — among the most expensive of any built in Washington state, according to its developer — has 84 guest rooms, a restaurant, two bars, 9,000 square feet of event space and a history of uncertainty over what would become of the prime location.
The reminders also come in the form of Latin phrases carved in various spots throughout the Romanesque Revival building, including one over an entrance that reads “SPES MESSIS IN SEMINE,” or, “The hope of the harvest is in the seed.”
It’s perhaps a good motto for the building’s new purpose, as The Lodge at Saint Edward State Park, opening this weekend within the eponymous park near Kenmore, on the northeast shore of Lake Washington. The $57 million hotel — among the most expensive of any built in Washington state, according to its developer — has 84 guest rooms, a restaurant, two bars, 9,000 square feet of event space and a history of uncertainty over what would become of the prime location.
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