Building History

According to the Seattle Times of 05/06/1951, ground would be broken for the four-floor National Public Service Insurance Company's Headquarters Building on 05/07/1951 with Mayor William F. Devin in attendance and was to have been completed by 11/1951. This article indicated that Charles Leber founded the National Public Service Insurance Company in 1932, and, by 1951, the business had grown to maintain "offices in eight Western states and Alaska." Prior to building this building, it occupied the fourth floor of the Securities Building in Downtown Seattle. The company planned to occupy the upper two floors of the new building and lease out the bottom two. Architect Kenneth S. Ripley was instructed to provide off-street parking for 30 vehicles. Ripley collaborated with the Brazier Construction Company on the building. (See "Insurance Co. To Start Work on Building," Seattle Times, 05/06/1951, p. 19.)

PCAD id: 19796