The Elks Temple in Tacoma, Washington has been renovated and restored to its 1916 glory.
The hotel, designed by Ankrom Moisan Architects, now offers 44 guestrooms, a live music venue, three restaurants, a McMenamins brewery, and on-site gardens that will provide the restaurants with fresh ingredients.
The building had fallen into disuse and disrepair since its last occupant, the 565 Restaurant, closed in 1986. After a long period of negotiations, McMenamins acquired the property and began renovations in 2017. Froelich provided structural engineering for the major renovation and seismic retrofit.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Elks Temple was built in 1916 and designed by É. Frère Champney, a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts, in the second Renaissance Revival style.
Adjacent to the building is a stairway called the “Spanish Steps” that winds up the hillside. These steps, modeled after the Scalinata di Spagna in Rome, were rehabilitated in 2011 by a grant from WSDOT and the Federal Highway Transportation Enhancements program.
As always, we’re proud to have worked with McMenamins on another historic structure.
