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Robert Moran (1857-1943), a one-time Mayor of Seattle, established this metal-working company with this two brothers, Peter and William, in 1882. The plant was destroyed by fire in 1889, but the firm relocated to another facility on Charles Avenue ten days after the disaster. The Moran Brothers Company got into ship-building and became a significant producer at the turn of the century. Robert Moran retired to a 7,800-acre estate on Orcas Island, but lost control of the land during the Great Depression. He died in a modest house on Orcas in 1943.

Demolished in the Great Fire of 1889.

PCAD id: 11990