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Building Hstory

In 1908-1909, Seattle architects the Beezer Brothers designed the Nestor Building, a commercial strip building occupying a wedge-shaped parcel on Westlake Avenue. At the time, It had one of the longest continuous street frontages in the city at 216 feet. Aside from its unusual length, it was a typical low-rise commercial block of its day at two-stories tall, with 12 storefronts on the first floor and offices on the second. All offices had steam heat and hot and cold water. It also had the terra-cotta sheathing so popular for retail buildings between 1905 and 1925. It stood across the street from Sullivan and Considine's Majestic Theatre constructed at the same time. (Thank you to Rob Ketcherside who pointed out errors in the previous PCAD entry in an email to the author on 02/12/2015.)

Building Notes

The Nestor Building appeared in the 1915 Polk's Seattle City Directory, but not the 1931 Seattle City Directory. Its address was listed as 1941 Westlake in thePolks Seattle City Directory 1928.

PCAD id: 15034