AKA: Spokane Street Cold Storage Terminal, Waterfront, Seattle, WA; Port of Seattle, Pier 24, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings - warehouses; built works - infrastructure - transportation structures

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1913-1914

Waterfront, Seattle, WA


Building History

This warehouse facility was built following the creation of the Port of Seattle in the election of 09/05/1911; prior to 1911, the railroads ran port facilities, creating a multi-modal stranglehold on transportation. During the Progressive Era in Seattle, numerous public utilities became civically-owned and operated, such as Seattle City Light and the Port of Seattle.

The Port of Seattle renamed port facilities in 1944 to avoid confusion about locations. At that time, the port renumbered the Spokane Street Terminal to become Pier 24. (See Daryl C. McClary, HistoryLink.org Essay 9967, "Seattle docks and piers are given new designations on May 1, 1944," posted 11/26/2011, accessed 10/24/2016.)

Alteration

According to Padraic Burke's book, A History of the Port of Seattle, Pier 24's "...cold-storage plant, fish-freezing facility and ice and compressor plant were built several years later." (See Padraic Burke,A History of the Port of Seattle, [Seattle: Port of Seattle, 1976], p. 49.)

PCAD id: 19384