The hotel was built by Alko-owned Arctia Oy and the nine-storey building with strip windows was designed in 1961 by architect Einari Teräsvirta.
The hotel was housed in a residential building built in 1877 by Nikolai Kiseleff and designed by F. A.
At that time, the hotel had 58 rooms located on the sixth and seventh floors of the house.
On the lower floors was the restaurant, the department store Otra, which was reached by escalator, and the office space of the Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (KOP).
[1] Hotel Marski was a meeting place for Finland's political elite for a long time, and President Urho Kekkonen, among others, was a regular guest.