Construction of the Empress Hotel began in 1904 on a site reclaimed from the sea. The combined load of the fill and the structure has caused several feet of compression in the underlying marine silty clay. Fortunately, settlement observations have been made regularly since1912 and the nature of the foundations and the structure allow reliable extrapolation back to the first loading. This paper describes the site, the applied loading, the settlements observed, and the results of laboratory tests on samples recently obtained. The observed primary and secondary consolidation settlements are compared with computed values.