Designed by architects Edward Daugherty and R. M.Walker, The Imperial Hotel was built in 1910. It cost $300,000 to build. There were 119 rooms and 59 individual baths.

The hotel was used until 1980 and then abandoned. It stayed vacant until the Olympics when the city turned it into low-income housing. In 2014, the hotel went under restoration. It reopened as housing for formerly homeless people and supportive housing for those with special needs.