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Play hooky every day in this 1930s school-turned-playground.

Garden Tours

Tuesdays at 10am and Fridays at 3pm

Join a gardener for a plant-filled tour, indoors and out, including historical tidbits about Anderson School. Tours last about an hour and offer opportunities to ask questions and see seasonal highlights. Meet at the front desk. Please call ahead to confirm tour availability. Passporters: tours are eligible for a Just-for-Fun garden stamp.

Play hooky in this 1930s school-turned-playground

We revitalized Bothell’s first junior high with pure fun in mind – dining, movies, live music, swimming, games, shopping, tastings and all-around enjoyment for visitors of all ages.

No hall pass is needed to explore the five acres of gardens, bars and nooks: Sip a handcrafted beverage in the hallway, order drinks in the Principal’s Office, play pinball in the Woodshop, skip PE and float in the pool instead, and forgo the lunch line for casual, sophisticated dining at Tavern on the Square. Your only homework here? Explore, imbibe and enjoy!

Built in 1931 in the art deco style and later named for the school's first Principal, Wilbert A. "Andy" Anderson, the property is 20 miles north of Seattle, minutes from the Sammamish River Trail and adjacent to Pop Keeney Stadium.

A courtyard billowing with plants and trees is the heart of it all, the place to sit fireside with a beer brewed just steps away. Thoughout the property, unique artwork prevails, showcasing the history of the area and the fascinating people who were an integral part of it. Local artists crafted their interpretations based on historical photos and interviews from alumni, families and colorful residents.

Welcome to Anderson School; let the exploration begin!

Anderson School allows pets on the side patios and in hotel rooms for a fee.

Check-in is at 3 pm; checkout is at 11 am

The room names and original artwork are inspired by people and events that were significant to the Bothell community. From teachers who changed students’ lives to Olympic gold medalists who trained in the pool to the Native Americans who settled here first, guests will learn some local history. For ADA rooms, please contact the hotel directly. View the Room Names and Galleries.

Check-in is at 3pm; checkout is at 11am

Questions? Call (425) 398-0122

8am-4pm Monday-Friday,

to speak to a representative or

email us at info.as@mcmenamins.com

Lodging Policies

Policies:

Room and package rates are the same for single or double occupancy.

A credit card for authorization purposes and ID are required at check-in.

Debit cards are accepted, however McMenamins is not responsible for overdrafts caused by holds on your account.

Add $25 per person after double occupancy.

Children age six and under stay free.

For ADA rooms, please contact the hotel directly.

Additional pet fee per pet, per day. Please read our Pet Policy page.

Rollaways are available for some rooms. Call to confirm availability for your room.

Add state and county lodging tax to all room rates and overnight packages.

Cancellations made less than 48 hours before arrival time are subject to penalty.

All overnight packages are subject to availability and are excluded from major holidays.

Rates are subject to change.

Stay with us often? Join the Loyal Order of the Slumbering Bed Heads and earn a night on us!

Downtown Bothell

The Anderson School property is a key part of the city’s long-term redevelopment plan.

Bothell is located just 20 minutes northeast of downtown Seattle on SR 522 or via I-405, and it neighbors the popular Woodinville wine country, home to more than 90 wineries and tasting rooms. Visitors to the region enjoy sailing on Lake Washington, shopping for antiques and unique local gifts, hiking in the nearby Cascade Mountains, and cycling the Burke-Gilman and Sammamish River trails, 38 miles of paved multi-use path stretching from Seattle to Redmond. The city is ideally located to take advantage of the burgeoning tourist draw of the Sammamish River Valley and Seattle’s booming high-tech industry.

Loyal Order of the Slumbering Bed Heads

Bed Head Login

New Name, Same Program

The Loyal Order of the Slumbering Bed Heads was once known as our Frequent Guest Program.

Stay at our historic hotels and earn free nights!

Questions about your existing points? See our FAQs.

Please note: We are unable to issue points for reservations made through Expedia and Booking.com. For best results, book directly through mcmenamins.com. Limit one room per guest per night.

How does it work?

First, create or update your profile in our online reservations systemand follow the prompts to join the Bed Head Program; you'll receive monthly email reminders about the program! Keep an eye out for upcoming events, seasonal promotions and even occasional specials just for Bed Heads.

Stay with us! Points are automatically rewarded 24 hours after check out - you'll receive 100 points per night in rooms with a common bath, 150 points per night in rooms with a private bath and 50 points per night in Edgefield’s hostel rooms. Your accrued points can be viewed at any time in your online profile. Please note: points accrued during your stay are not available for immediate redemption.

When you've accrued 900 points or more, search results on our online system will include a "900 point" rate for rooms (based on availability). Choose this rate to redeem your points. Add-ons, like our Romance Package, will still be available at regular prices.

Rules

This offer is for individual bookings only; the offer does not apply to contracted groups or conferences.

All of your qualifying nights must be booked under the same guest profile for points to accrue correctly.

Only 1 room per night is accruable.

You must be a member of the Loyal Order of the Slumbering Bed Heads to accrue points and redeem your complimentary stays.

Qualifying nights begin the day you sign up! Sorry, our program is not retroactive.

The Grand Suite at Grand Lodge, Family Suite and Parrish House at Old St. Francis, and Family Rooms at Edgefield are not available for redemption.

Based on availability; blackout dates may apply.

Reward nights and free or sponsored promotional stays are excluded from earning points in the program.

No credit for "no-shows” or cancellations within cancellation policy.

Redemption must be booked prior to arrival and points cannot be redeemed upon check out.

Any questions can be sent to loyalty@mcmenamins.com.

Please note: All rules are subject to change.

Important Information about Bed Head Points

In order to accumulate points, it is important that you use the same username and password every time you make a reservation. When guests create multiple profiles, points get scattered across them, making them difficult to use for free stays.

Need help aligning multiple user profiles or resetting your password? Contact us at loyalty@mcmenamins.com so we can merge your accounts into one or help with passwords.

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Throughout the month of August

Washington Wine Month

August 22-31 * 2022 Umbrella Jimmy Rosé, Columbia Valley

Monday, August 26

All Month

21 and over

at Washington Locations

McMenamins and Bothell Historical Society present

Very, Very Old Food

Presented by Harriet Baskas

History Pub

Tuesday, August 27

6pm doors, 7pm program

All ages welcome

at Haynes' Hall

Wednesday, August 28

6pm

All ages welcome

at The Shed

Thursday, August 29

6pm

All ages welcome

at The Shed

Friday, August 30

6pm

All ages welcome

at The Shed

Sunday, September 1

5pm

All ages welcome

at The Shed

Friday, September 6

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, September 13

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Saturday, September 14

Live music from 1-4pm and 6-9pm

All ages welcome

at The Shed

Tuesday, September 17

All Day

21+ to Drink

at All Locations

Friday, September 20

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

McMenamins, Bothell Historical Society, University of Washington Bothell, and Three Rivers Chapter of Trout Unlimited present

Little Red Fish Found: New Insights on the Mysterious Snerka Salmon

Presented by Dr. Jeff Jensen

History Pub

Tuesday, September 24

6pm doors, 7pm program

All ages welcome

at Haynes' Hall

Friday, September 27

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Saturday, September 28

Live music starting at 1pm

All ages welcome

at Anderson School

Friday, October 4

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, October 11

All weekend

All ages welcome

at Anderson School

Friday, October 11

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, October 11

7pm doors & 8pm show

21 and over

at Haynes' Hall

Friday, October 18

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, October 25

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Carnival Masquerade with Poker Face

a Halloween Party

Friday, October 25

7pm doors & 8pm show

21 and over

at Haynes' Hall

Friday, November 1

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Sunday, November 3

10am-3pm

All ages welcome

at Haynes' Hall

Friday, November 8

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, November 8

8pm doors, 8pm show

21 and over

at Haynes' Hall

Friday, November 15

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Sunday, November 17

9am doors, 10am show | 12:30pm doors, 1pm show

21 and over

at Haynes' Hall

Tuesday, November 19

November 19-25

All ages welcome

21+ to drink

at All Locations

Friday, November 22

7 - 10 PM

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, November 29

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, December 6

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, December 13

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, December 20

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Friday, December 27

7 - 10 pm

All Ages Welcome

at Thorndike Room

Anderson School has all kinds of faces peering at visitors, all steeped in history. Local artists created much of the one-of-a-kind artwork based on historical photos, interviews and articles from the school, alumni, Bothell Historical Society and local families and colorful residents.

Revenue Agents

Grandma Bothell

Anderson School Reunion

Mr. Mills Dream Machine

McMenamins on the Columbia

Good 'Ol Boys of Bothell

Wilbert 'Andy' Anderson

World's Largerst Living Christmas Tree

Summer Speed Boat Races

Logging

4th of July Girls and Ponies

School Bus

Ole Daiber, Mountaineer

Bothell Goes Ape 'for fun'

Woodins & Lytle's on their way to the 1909 Pacific Expo

Beechnut Circus

Students at School

4th of July- Main St. Crowd & Bicycle Rider

Crows of Bothell

Steamboats on the River

1937 Mardis Gras Queen & Court

Ready to Fill the Shoes of Tomorrow

A Match in the Attic

Willow People

Bothell 4th of July Parade

Riverboat

Bothell State Bank Robbery

Bothell Music

Beardsley Twins

Bonnie Bird

Tommy Thompson

Tracie Ruiz

Joyride of the Juvenile Vandals

Andy Anderson

Delivery to WA Hannan's Store

Traffic Ticket

The Avon

The Wheel

Blue Swallow

Alice Seaton

Moritz Thompsen

Tommy Thompson

Nicholas Oeconomacos

Ben McAdoo, Architect

Bud Ericksen

Carol Aries

Karen Scholl Thorndike

Marilyn Eylar Conway

Harvey Hansen

Gene Gentry McMahon

Gerhard Ericksen

Andy Anderson

Merle Olin

Kiu Kanaya

A.J. Sundholm Contractor & Builder

DR Chase

Arne Dixon

The Hannan House

Ben Boone

Charles Owen Wilson

Egawa

Patty Murray

Willie Sligh

Andrew Beckstrom

Dr. E.E. Lytle

Mr. & Mrs. Bothell

Good Roads Day

Elmer Carlburg

Harold 'Pop' Keeney

Charles & Larry Walters

Belle Roberts

Dennis Behrens

Alvin 'Allie' Rodgers and John Rodgers

Pat Pierce

Ron Green

Rob Thompson

The Willow People

Scott Elliot Bird

Don Bagnal

Dr. Hebbel Hoff

Synchronized

Holly Call

Bernie Ackerman

Dick Truly

50's High School Girls

Chris Walla

Bernadette Arbow

Greg Kuehnoel

Bob Knorr

Dan Hall

Dick Yonck

Dr. Reuben Chase

Caroll "Si" Siverson

Gerald Conaway

John Hughes

Al Haynes

Terri Malinowski

Bernadette Bascom

Charlotte Davis

Ron Nardone

Lowell Haynes

Len Fellez

Ken & Marie Lynch

History

Welcome to McMenamins Anderson School, a special place with a long tradition of nurturing dreams and imagination and bringing people together. Here, remarkable teachers have inspired students to become, among other things, the first female U.S. Senator from the State of Washington, a NFL football player, a pioneering physicist to do groundbreaking studies of late stellar evolution and cosmology and the first American woman to sail solo around the world! These folks were adventuerous explorers in their respective fields. Now, we encourage you to do your own explorations on property. There’s a mix of wondrous spaces, beautiful gardens and creative structures. Go forth light of heart and beer in hand because the joy of discovery is afoot. Read more...

Thorndike Room

A community room at Anderson School

Looking for a place to host your next birthday bash? How about that upcoming family reunion? We're pleased to offer the Thorndike Room as a free space for all residents of the community. To help you plan your next event, we've gathered together some helpful information.

Map of Room FAQ's

General Information:

Capacity: 35 people

Age Requirement: All user applicants must be 18 years of age or older. Children must be supervised at all times.

Use of the Community Room is free of charge

Conducting business cannot take place in the community room. Work meetings and team meetings are acceptable; however nothing can be sold out of the room and a business cannot be run from the community room

All events in the community room must be free to attend

Wall decorations are not permitted

Thorndike Room key can be checked out at The Woodshop

Available Rental Times:

Sunday - Thursday • 11:30am-11pm

Friday - Saturday* • 11:30am-3pm

*Please note the Community Room is not available after 3pm on Friday & Saturday.

Room Setup:

Tables: Standard set up is 6-8 small bistro tables, plus 1 - 8’ rectangular table, however, this can not be guaranteed. There may be other types of tables in the space depending on property needs.

No linens provided.

You are welcome to move tables around, however the space needs to be reset to how it was found.

Catering:

You may bring in personal sack lunches, water and soda. Any additional catering, including all alcohol, is available only through McMenamins. You are welcome to order food and beverages from The Woodshop Bar on the day of your event. No outside alcohol is allowed in the Community Room.

How do you make a reservation?

Please fill out the form below.

Note that reservations must be made at least 7 days in advance.

Hold your Private Event at Anderson School

Weddings Meetings Social Events

Built in 1931 as Bothell Junior High, the art-deco style Anderson School and its surrounding buildings has been transformed. Located 20 minutes from downtown Seattle, McMenamins renovated the property to include: 72 guestrooms – all with private baths, televisions and free Wi-Fi; restaurants, small bars, a brewery, a movie theater, a swimming pool and event spaces. The 5 private event spaces will accommodate groups of 10 to 600 guests, complete with onsite catering and handcrafted McMenamins beverages.

Contact our sales team to inquire or book your event.

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Parking

Parking

The Anderson School has limited complimentary parking. If our lot is full, hotel guests and patrons are welcome to park at the Pop Keeney Stadium located west of our parking lot*. (Entrance to this over flow parking lot is off NE 188th St.) *Please note the Pop Keeney Stadium parking lot availability is dependent upon stadium events.

Hotel Guests - There are 15 minute zones to unload/load your luggage and check into the hotel on the south east and north east side of the historical school building.

We encourage guests to remove all valuables from their vehicle

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