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Warshal's and the other Meves Building to the south were demolished in 2004 for the Madison Tower Condominium, leaving Central Loan and an adjacent adult video store among the last seedy businesses left along First Avenue. During demolition a ghost sign for Standard Furniture hidden for over 100 years was revealed along the building's roofline. With luxury condos and hotels taking over the neighborhood and seeing their core clientele dying off or being pushed out by
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carried forward. Instead the building was partitioned into 3 ground floor retail spaces with lofts above, which became home to office space, storage rooms and manufacturing firms. Over the years the ground floor was occupied by various used furniture dealers, sporting goods stores (including an early location of
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November, would over the next several years completely refurbish the building inside and out, including removal of the fire escape and repainting of the building's
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After spending most of the 1890s between temporary quarters on
Western Avenue and the basement of the New York Block on Second Avenue, Schoenfeld leased the Sander Building from Struve in 1896 with plans to occupy the entire 20,000 square foot space. He had the red brick façade painted a bright white
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Polishuks retired in the mid-1970s, selling Central Loan to Gerson Goldman. The shop was run by him and later his son Alan and continued to have strong business into the late 1990s. After the death of Nettie Polishuk in 2000, the building was sold to the Wehl family, who began plans to refurbish
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Northwest Awning Company and storage space for the Schneider art gallery was gutted by a mysterious fire on January 20, 1933, that caused $ 40,000 in damage and injured several firemen. Because the building to the south was also known as the
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as an investment by August J. Meves, proprietor of Meves
Cafeteria, one of Seattle's most popular eateries of the era. The neighboring Wadsworth Building would be purchased by Meves' brother Henry the following year and both buildings would become known as the Meves Buildings. In 1931 the building
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Standard Furniture imminent in October 1907, Frederick Karl Struve, trustee of the Struve Estate, proposed converting the building into a 120-room hotel; architect Julian F. Everett was commissioned to design two additional floors for the building, but these plans were never
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directly to the north, the excavation pit of which would prevent the fire from spreading further north. More brick buildings would rise to replace the commercial buildings burnt to the south including the 3-story
Griffith Block and 2-story Maddocks Building, among the first to be completed in the
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of all floors and the construction of a penthouse on the rooftop level. They would also revive 'The Standard' as the building's official name. MWIC 1012 would sell the building in July 2017 for $ 15,510,000.00 to Kar Standard LLC, who continue to maintain the building as office space. The ground
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and finally abandoned, the Central Seattle Building Corporation sold the building in 1945 to pawnbrokers Irman and Nettie Polishuk. Irman had opened his first pawn shop, OK Loan, in Pioneer Square in 1923 and moved his business to 1016 First Avenue in the 1950s, merging with the Central sporting
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The Sander Building was completed in less than 2 months and was ready for occupancy by August 1. It was initially divided into two spaces spanning all 3 floors, with the John Schram stove and tinware company occupying numbers 1012-14 and the Washington Rubber Company located at number 1016. The
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and a well respected businessman in Seattle since the late 1870s, was responsible for building Seattle's first cable car line in 1887 and would later be instrumental in securing the right of way for the interurban lines to both Tacoma and Everett operated by the
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and before long he was again looking to expand the Seattle store in a single new building designed specifically for his needs, which was completed uptown at Second and Pine Streets in 1908. They were fully moved out of their old building by the end of March.
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of Sander's other foreclosed properties. He would assume ownership of the building where it would remain in his family for over 30 years, with his son Frederick Karl Struve taking over ownership after Henry's death in 1905.
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in October 1891. They would acquire the building for $ 34,414.10 to cover the judgement against Fred and his wife Nellie. The loan society's local agent was prominent attorney and ex-mayor
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selling army surplus goods. The store was later renamed Central Loan and Gun Exchange and became one of the most well known in Seattle, even being used as a filming location for the 1974
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