4, Gowey-2-Occidental-FEb.-20,-1967-WEB September 21, 2014 1200 × 816 Seattle Now & Then: The Occidental Hotel Gowey returns to the scene again in February, the 20th, but six years later and so also six years after the Seattle Hotel was razed for the parking garage. Seattle’s first skyscraper, the Alaska Building at Second and James, rises beyond.