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Parkinson's own office where he would remain until his removal to Los Angeles in 1894. Seattle's public night school opened on the building's second floor in 1892 with pupils in age ranging from 13 to 22, and was soon joined by the Queen City Business College and later the Acme Business College. The building became an early hub of charitable organizations, with the Union Gospel Mission opening in the basement and the Bureau of Associated Charities headquartered there in 1892. The Seattle Chamber of Commerce would locate in the building in 1893. One of Seattle's early telephone companies, the Seattle Automatic Telephone Company, would have their offices in the building until 1901.
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new interior finishes, wiring and elevators and the lowering of the ground floor to be level with the sidewalk. The most visible result of the renovation was the demolition of the building's entire southeastern corner down to the third floor, which was done in order to bring more light to the inner offices and to make room for the construction of a heating plant in its place. Echoing the original plans of the tower that could have replaced the building, the basement was converted into a parking garage which it is still used as today. Upon completion the building was renamed the Smith Tower Annex. At the same time what had been known previously as the L.C. Smith
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that would have the buyers paying $ 75,000 up front and the remainder on
January 1, 1890, with the shrewd Yesler insisting on holding onto the property in the interim to continue collecting valuable rent on the tenants and delaying the buyer's intentions of building a large brick building on the site. Yesler would use the proceeds from this sale to fund the further construction of his
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Schwabacher Brothers decided to redevelop the lot. The railroad tracks, which originally ran up First Avenue to Yesler Way, were soon reconfigured into a loop that would pass in front of the Pacific Block before returning to First. At its peak the station had 27 daily departures for both Tacoma and the branch line to Renton.
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National bank through common shareholders. The unfinished building was already being praised as one of the most magnificent bank buildings on the coast and would make appearances in many Architectural trade journals. A detailed description of the banking room was published in the
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Wallmarx as part of the "Seattle Walls" mural program, funded by the Downtown Seattle Development Association and the Seattle Arts Commission. Upon completion of renovations in 1977 the building was renamed the Interurban Building and once again became
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September 1891 and tenants began to advertise the following month. Besides the banks, the ground floor was shared with a hardware store and a pawnbroker facing Occidental Way; the Monogram Saloon operated in the basement directly below the bank. The building's
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gargoyles and a large lion's head keystone over the bank's corner entrance. Over 2,100,000 bricks had gone into the building's construction and the final brick was officially laid on April 9, 1891, though there was still at least 3 months of interior work left to be done before tenants could begin to
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January 1945 when both it and the Smith Tower were offered to the city of Seattle for $ 75,000 and $ 900,000 respectively. The city floated the idea of converting the annex into a garage for city vehicles that
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of Henry Yesler and as the city grew he would gradually sell off or lease lots to prospective settlers as he needed the funds. By the late 1880s the lots at what was then the
Southeast corner of Mill Street and Second Avenue South, still owned by Yesler, were covered by a collection of wooden shacks
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In February 1889 Yesler sold the 2 lots to a group of investors consisting of J.M. Thompson, Fred E. Sander and George M. Boman, all three of which were involved with real estate development as well as having stakes in the Lake Washington Cable Railway Company. The sale price was $ 85,000 in a deal
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to quell their suppliers but these too went partially unpaid. Suspecting a personal grudge as a result of Griffith's involvement with them, the building company in turn joined numerous other firms in a lawsuit against the mortgage company in February 1892. Later that year Griffith resigned as bank
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Since the closure of the Interurban station, the former banking room-turned waiting room had been occupied briefly by a branch of Frye's meat market and for most of the 1940s by Block's Shoe Store, and appears to have remained vacant after that. The former savings bank space facing Yesler Way was
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In the early 1970s the building, which had become mostly vacant and infested with pigeons under the previous owner, was purchased by architect and contractor George Filler and his wife Evelyn who undertook a multi-year $ 1.7 million project to upgrade the building's interior for modern office and
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His proposed building, tentatively titled the New Pacific Block would contain a parking garage on the first 3 floors that would serve the offices above as well as the nearby Smith Tower. No further mention was ever made of this tower (or a First Avenue extension) and the plans were quietly scaled
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many of its interior finishes and hardware were sourced from across the country; Smith & Wyman of Minneapolis supplied the doors, blinds, sashes and interior moldings. Matthew Dow was awarded the general construction contract, the first of many buildings he would help build in Seattle, and by
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In the mid 1920s, the 2nd Avenue Extension project had stirred a brief revival in Pioneer Square real estate and despite the loss of foot traffic that the interurban had generated for the area, the Pacific Block remained a popular office address as other nearby office buildings were converted to
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Though completion of the building was still several months out in February 1891, the banking room, said to be the largest yet opened in Seattle, was made separately waterproof and the bank opened there that month, followed by the neighboring Seattle Savings Bank (later the Nickle then Washington
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at First and Madison Streets by the end of 1901 followed by the Seattle Savings Bank. Clise's vacancy would be filled in 1902 by W.E. Granger who chose Seattle as the headquarters for his newly established Trans-Alaskan Railroad Company that was engaged in the race to build a railway connecting
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With an almost complete turnover in management by 1895, the Seattle National Bank had left their building, relocating to the Haller Building at Second Avenue and Columbia Streets in what is still today Seattle's financial district. With ownership of the building in limbo new bank president E.W.
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always fell, though. The building underwent a major interior modernization beginning in 1929 under L.C. Smith's heirs, which included demolition of the entire Southeast wing of the building. The building was renamed again to the Smith Tower Annex, which it would remain until its most recent
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In the early 1880s the building at the Southeast corner was the auction house of J.M. Pearlman and in the several years before the great fire, was occupied by the salesroom of the Lake Union Furniture Manufacturing Company, which had established a factory at the eponymous lake in
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and lodging houses, the earliest dating back to the late 1860s. Among these early hostelries and adjoining several Chinese laundrys was the Wisconsin House, located over the Star Saloon where it is said that anti-Chinese sentiment that culminated in the
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Construction of the massive foundation, said to be one of the largest being built in the city at the time, began in June 1890 with the driving of piles, with large shipments of Chuckanut Sandstone arriving by barge from the Roth & Roeder quarry in
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The building was visited by fire several times in the early 1900s, but its proximity to the fire department headquarters and the fact that numerous people were living in their offices in the building allowed for a quick response and minimal damage.
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line terminated in front of the building and the former bank lobby was used as a ticket office and waiting room. The building was threatened with demolition several times in the 1910s and 1920s but plans to replace the building with a
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Upon Smith's passing in 1910, his properties were willed to his widow Flora B. Smith, and upon her death in 1920 to their son Burns Lyman Smith (1880–1941) who would subsequently form the United Business Corporation as a
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hotels or fell vacant. In August 1926 B.L. Smith announced plans to once again replace the Pacific Block, this time with a $ 2 million 18-story skyscraper. Smith said about the revival of the neighborhood at the time:
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would be connected to the Smith Tower by an underground tunnel, but they ultimately passed on buying the buildings. The building would eventually be purchased by realtor and developer Irving Baderman, who hired
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The Union Hardware Company at 106 Occidental, one of the building's oldest retail tenants, cited the closure of the interurban and subsequent loss of property value as their reason for relocating uptown.
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who, through his agent/attorney James Clise had amassed a large portfolio of Seattle buildings and land that he and his heirs would improve over the next decade culminating with the construction of the
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would clear the property and after a brief occupation by tents housing the burned-out businesses, the subsequent regrading in early 1890 would raise the streets 18 feet above the old ground level.
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but this was ultimately only used for the pier bases on the ground floor. The rest of the first and second floors were to be trimmed with red Colorado sandstone from the Kenmuir quarry near
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that would match the hue of the stone, giving the building a mostly monochromatic appearance. While most of the common brick and structural lumber used in the building was from Seattle,
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president and in 1894 sued the ailing Seattle National Bank Building Company which after spending much of the previous year in court with various lawsuits was ordered into
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to manage it. From the end of World War II and into the early 1950s the building's upper floors were rented out by the U.S. Army, first to house the state offices of the
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with D.A. Spencer as receiver. The building was subsequently foreclosed upon and sold at auction for only $ 103,000; the bondholders wouldn't see a penny from the sale.
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restoration in the late 1970s after which it was renamed the Interurban Building as a nod to its role in local transportation. It was listed on the
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1761:"Burns Lyman Smith Will Build Another Skyscraper: Son of Syracuse Millionaire Plans Structure Tall as L.C. Smith Building Now Being Erected".
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who would rename it the Pacific Block in 1899. From 1904 to 1928, the
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1037:"Fred E. Sander, Dealer in Real Estate [Advertisement]"
953:"New Incorporations: A Company Formed to Erect a bank Building"
1795:. October 6, 1929. p. 46 – via Chronicling America.
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1911:"Smith Annex Now Leasing".
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557:Fraternal Order of Eagles
550:New York Central Railroad
535:banker and industrialist
367:The Seattle National Bank
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982:"National Bank Building"
821:Seattle Historical Sites
689:Washington State Ferries
274:Richardsonian Romanesque
244:, formerly known as the
210:Richardsonian Romanesque
202:Architectural style
158:47.6014556; -122.3324861
1969:Pioneer Square, Seattle
1763:The Seattle Daily Times
1748:The Seattle Daily Times
1703:The Seattle Daily Times
1688:The Seattle Daily Times
1673:The Seattle Daily Times
1658:The Seattle Daily Times
1643:The Seattle Daily Times
1628:The Seattle Daily Times
1613:The Seattle Daily Times
1598:The Seattle Daily Times
1583:The Seattle Daily Times
1485:The Seattle Daily Times
898:"Seattle National Bank"
682:The Interurban Building
2186:Pioneer Square pergola
1900:. p. F4 & F9.
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2165:Waterfall Garden Park
1380:"Public Night School"
1302:"The Last Brick Laid"
1193:"Notes of the Trades"
668:Henry Broderick, Inc.
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41:Contributing property
2196:Prefontaine Fountain
2018:Union Trust Building
1998:Mutual Life Building
1386:. September 13, 1892
561:Foresters of America
349:Seattle riot of 1886
276:architecture in the
252:(1899–1930) and the
123:102 Occidental Way S
2212:King Street Station
2059:Elm Coffee Roasters
1988:Interurban Building
1505:. February 13, 1892
1438:. February 25, 1892
1334:. September 8, 1891
1256:. February 15, 1891
1225:. September 5, 1890
933:. February 19, 1890
904:. February 19, 1889
852:. February 17, 1889
691:was painted over a
676:Port of Embarkation
452:Battle Creek, Mich.
344:donation land claim
242:Interurban Building
149: /
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29:Interurban Building
2049:Cone & Steiner
1855:. October 2, 1955.
1626:"Railroad Notes".
1360:. October 28, 1891
1219:"High Brick Walls"
1017:. February 7, 1892
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2100:The Double Header
1915:. April 17, 1977.
1913:The Seattle Times
1853:The Seattle Times
1808:The Seattle Times
1499:"New Suits Filed"
1412:. January 3, 1892
1147:. August 15, 1890
793:The Seattle Times
504:Pendleton, Oregon
397:John B. Parkinson
278:Pacific Northwest
254:Smith Tower Annex
248:(1890–1899), the
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2085:ʔálʔal Café
2013:Smith Tower
745:Colman Dock
629:Smith Tower
582:Iliamna Bay
542:Smith Tower
297:foreclosure
286:Los Angeles
260:located at
187:Matthew Dow
156: /
132:Coordinates
2232:Categories
2174:Public art
2105:Iron Horse
2095:The Casino
774:References
693:ghost sign
609:interurban
484:Bas-Relief
424:terracotta
405:Bellingham
318:skyscraper
313:interurban
262:Yesler Way
224:ID70000086
2138:Geography
2054:Dead Line
1976:Buildings
1566:March 10,
1535:March 13,
1509:March 13,
1468:March 13,
1442:March 13,
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908:March 10,
882:March 11,
856:March 11,
500:Fairhaven
454:, are of
412:bluestone
293:creditors
192:Architect
172:1890–1891
2115:OK Hotel
2032:Business
827:April 6,
798:April 6,
567:and the
301:New York
184:Built by
120:Location
2078:Defunct
733:Skagway
584:to the
393:Ballard
351:began.
333:History
270:Seattle
216:Part of
174: (
563:, the
409:Tenino
713:1883.
700:Notes
645:line.
169:Built
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