Wing Luke Museum: Free Admission for Up to Five People With an EBT Card
Walk a 1910 hotel where a general store, rented rooms and family halls still hold Seattle's Asian story.
🏮 Rooms Behind the Shop
The entrance sits on King Street at Eighth Avenue, under a vertical sign on the 1910 East Kong Yick Building, which the Kong Yick Investment Company built with money pooled by about 170 Chinese American pioneers. A general store at street level doubled as the neighborhood hub. The top floors held the Freeman Hotel, single rooms for itinerant workers from canneries, mills and laundries. The Gee How Oak Tin family association kept a meeting hall where new arrivals could find work, health care and a place to live. Those spaces open only on the Historic Hotel Tour, which leaves the lobby at 10:30 in the morning and 3:30 in the afternoon, Wednesday through Sunday, fifteen guests at a time, first come first served, no reservations by phone. Call ahead to confirm tour availability, as tours stay inside the building and stop when the historic rooms reach 85 degrees F or staffing is thin. Bring an EBT card and ask for the Museums for All rate at the desk, which provides free admission for up to five people with an EBT card. Everyone else pays 25.95 dollars for an adult ticket.
