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This office building was built for Watson C. Squire (1838-1929), a New York-born lawyer and business executive who moved to Seattle, WA, in 1879. Soon after arriving, he erected Squire's Opera House in 11/1879, the city's first large-scale performance space, an enterprise that lasted only a few years into the early 1880s. Squire had amassed some wealth working as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Remington Arms Company (1865-1879), and, with some of it, he purchased significant land holdings in the Washington Territory; once in Seattle, he became active in business circles, acting as the Vice-President of the Seattle Trust Company (c. 1890), and founder and President of the Union Trust Company and the Squire Investment Company. Like many well-to-do businessmen of the era, he also became a successful politician becoming Washington's 12th Territorial Governor (1884-1887) and one of the state's first two US Senators (1889-1897).

Demolished;

PCAD id: 15483