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Building History

Joseph E. Standley (born 1854 in OH-d. 1940 in Seattle, WA) opened an antiques/miscellany store called "The Curio" at 2nd Avenue and Pike Street in Downtown Seattle in 1899. It operated at this address until 11/1901, when it moved to a new store at Madison and Alaska Way. The store moved again in 1904

Early in its existence, this idiosynchratic odds and ends store sold, according to an early 20th century advertisement, "Alaskan baskets, totems, Indian silver jewelry, Eskimo ivory carvings, beaded moccasins, arrow points, Tasmanian beads, gold nugget pins, native agates, rare old coins and stamps, brass and copper relics, shells and corals of every sea, elk teeth, Orders packed free for mailing." (See Steve Pomper, Seattle Curiosities, (Guilford, CT: Morris Book Publishing Company, LLC, 2009), p. 58-59.)

PCAD id: 16237