Morck Hotel

03/21/2022

05/02/2019

Transient Arrested For Causing Morck Fire Tuesday

The Aberdeen Police Department says that with help from downtown businesses it was able to identify and arrest a transient who started a fire in a building once a cornerstone of the downtown area long ago on Tuesday afternoon.

A 48-year old Aberdeen transient was arrested by Aberdeen Police officers and detectives at the Aberdeen Library Tuesday afternoon following a fire at the Morck building (located at 215 South K St.).

Just after 1:30 PM police and fire personnel responded to a report of black smoke coming from the building. The left eastbound lane of Heron St. was blocked for over an hour as firefighters extinguished the fire on the north side of the building (just off the alley), at one of the boarded up windows

During the investigation, officers were able to locate a video camera on a nearby business. The business owner quickly assisted with the review of their surveillance video, and officers were able to watch the suspect start the fire. A description of the suspect was provided to other officers in the field, who began searching for the suspect.

At about 3:35 PM the suspect was located in the Library, still wearing the clothing observed on video. The suspect was taken into custody and booked into the Aberdeen Jail for investigation of Arson 1st Degree.

The Aberdeen Police Department extends a big “Thank You” to area businesses who partnered with us to provide assistance with the suspect identification and quick capture of the suspect.

03/29/2019

Who still has one of these?

09/29/2018

http://www.morckhotel.com/

Home Welcome to the Hotel Morck website and thank you for visiting! The Morck was originally built in 1924 as a grand gathering place for the people of Aberdeen and Grays Harbor. Virtually all events of significance were staged here for its first fifty years and this icon’s re...

08/19/2018

https://www.nps.gov/articles/hotel-morck.htm

Morck Hotel listed in the National Register of Historic Places

07/29/2018

The Hotel Morck, in Aberdeen, Washington is historically significant for its broad contributions and direct connections to the commercial development of the Grays Harbor region. Upon completion, the Hotel Morck was touted as the finest hotel in Southwest Washington, a testament to developer Ernest A. Morck's vision and civic pride. Under the management of Ernst Mork's son, Carl, it remained the preeminent hotel in the region for over 40 years. The 1924 hotel is also significant under criteria C as a resource that represents the work of notable Seattle designer, Abraham H. Albertson and the Seattle contracting firm of Rounds-C list. The hotel building exemplifies late 19th and early 20th Century Classical Revival architecture, with the extensive use of terra cotta and a formal tri-parte arrangement. The period of significance begins in 1924, the completion date for the hotel, and ends in 1961, the year the hotel transferred out of the original ownership group and began a slow decline and conversion into apartments. By the early 1980s, the building had been converted to a low-income apartment complex and was renamed the Morck Apartments (renamed Washington Apartments in 2004).